How Evangelicals and Agnostic / Seculars view Biology

Evangelical Theology on Biology

1. Genesis 1:27 – “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” This verse supports the idea that human beings are uniquely created by God and differ from other living organisms.

2. Psalm 139:13-14 – “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” This verse emphasizes the idea that human beings are intricately designed by God, even before birth.

3. Colossians 1:17 – “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” This verse suggests that God is the sustainer of all life and plays a role in maintaining the order and balance of the natural world.

Agnostic / Secular Theology on Biology

1. Charles Darwin – “It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.” This quote from Darwin highlights the complexity and diversity of life that can be observed through the lens of biology.

2. Carl Sagan – “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” This quote emphasizes the idea that the intricacies of life can be understood through the study of biological processes and the organization of living systems.

3. Richard Dawkins – “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” This quote suggests that the complexity and functionality of living organisms can be explained through natural processes and the principles of biology.