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Thomas Nagel is professor at NYU and author of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False .  He has the gall (or courage, as it were) to break with the philosophical naturalism (materialism) held by many modern evolutionists...     Excerpts below are from "The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?" by Andrew Ferguson in The Weekly Standard. "...when it comes to cosmology, scientists are just as likely to make an error of philosophy as philosophers are to make an error of science."  "As a philosophy of everything [ naturalism ] is an undeniable drag. As a way of life it would be even worse. Fortunately, materialism is never translated into life as it’s lived. As colleagues and friends, husbands and mothers, wives and fathers, sons and daughters, materialists never put their money where their mouth is. Nobody thinks his daughter is just molecules in ...

Here is Christianity Today's  report on the state of the debate: "The Search for the Historical Adam" found here .  I appreciate Tim Keller's evaluation... Another participant, much-respected local pastor Tim Keller, offered a workshop paper laying out in irenic but firm terms a  conservative stance on Paul's view of the first humans. "[Paul] most definitely wanted to teach us that Adam and Eve were  real historical figures. When you refuse to take a biblical author literally when he clearly wants you to do so, you have  moved away from the traditional understanding of the biblical authority," Keller wrote. "If Adam doesn't exist, Paul's whole  argument—that both sin and grace work 'covenantally'—falls apart. You can't say that 'Paul was a man of his time' but we can  accept his basic teaching about Adam. If you don't believe what he believes about Adam, you are denying the core of Paul's  teaching."

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." (Psalm 19:1-6 NIV) “The ancient covenant is in pieces: Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance." (Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity , 1970) “The cosmos is all that there is, or was, or ever will be.” (Carl Sagan, Cosmos ) “That man’s….origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; …that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, …all these things…are … so nearly certain that no philos...