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We were >> we’re all consigned to keep paying attention to watching a cat just outside the window, crouched yet another mini-disaster: e incessant chatter of beneath a bush and eyeing a bird above her as only a newscasters who used to blame all this on Mother feline can. “I have two cats,” the woman told me. “But Nature, and now are bold instead to hold climate I don’t let them play with birds. Mice, voles, shrews— change responsible. For serious Christians, though, OK. ey can gobble them up to their hearts’ content. such references should remind us of the unusual But no birds. Can you believe some people get a thrill opportunities such events give us for saying straight- out of watching a cat catch and eat a bird?” forwardly that the doctrine of creation matters. Well, no, I can’t—unless maybe it’s a lion in Kenya e problem is, as I’ve argued here before, that so on the prowl for a buzzard. But I was puzzled then, few Christians really believe that anymore. ey and have been ever since, at the woman’s double can’t any longer say the word “creation” with con- standard. “Do you suppose,” I asked her, “that God viction or gumption. For a generation or more now, built that into His creation—that He planned that we evangelicals have increasingly swallowed the line would put a higher value on canaries than we do on that what we believe about origins isn’t all that dif- mice? Or is that something we came up with on our ferent from what everyone else believes—except that own?” e woman responded with a disdainfully we’re careful faithfully but lamely to add that God blank stare, and turned ever so deliberately to end controls the process. Leading evangelical colleges the conversation. I had, of course, broken a profound social taboo. I had allowed religion to contaminate a conversation that had been focused on secular issues. at’s why so many folks get so annoyed when the ques- tion is raised about the possibility that the Creator of the universe also occasionally rattles parts of that universe a bit—as he did in northern Chile last month. “Leave God out of this,” they insist. e big problem now, though, isn’t that those “bad” people out there—the academ- ics, the scientists, the big media people, and the people who run national parks and museums—leave God out of the discussion. e big problem more and more is that those of us who profess to be believers have quietly but effi ciently persuade thousands of students to such a large extent joined them in their silence. So that theistic evolution is a more sophisticated and theoretically, we are still creationists. But practically less embarrassing explanation of origins than what speaking, we don’t let our allegiance to that great we learned as beginners in Sunday school. ose truth aff ect us much in everyday life. We’ve become who hold to any form of fi at creation are regularly scared to talk out loud, at least in public company. made to feel as if they should also be speaking With His magnifi cent creation, and with the Elizabethan English. exercise of His incredible providence in that cre- But these days it’s become even more diffi cult ation, God gives us countless opportunities to wit- than that. Now even those who speak in tones of ness to His greatness. Even when we’re reluctant to theistic evolution, or others who are so restrained bring up the subject, He does! Shame on us all for THOMPSON/AP that they publicly commit to nothing more specifi c not taking the hint and using it more often as a ELAINE than intelligent design, are regarded as retrograde springboard to a few God-centered conversations. A Email: [email protected] MAY 3, 2014 • WORLD 9 JOEL.indd 3 4/16/14 12:04 PM could a lizard be the key to new cancer cancer treatments? Introducing zoo & wildlife biology Explore the amazing world of animals with BJU’s new zoo and wildlife biology concentration. With hundreds of reptiles in our serpentarium, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to conduct hands-on research with animals, including the Gila monster—a North American lizard whose venom possesses cancer-fighting properties. go.bju.edu/biology CREDIT (16842) 4/14 9 NEWS OPENER.indd 4 4/14/14 9:45 AM DispatchesNews > Quotables > Quick Takes APRIL 16: South Korean coast guard officers try to rescue passengers from the Sewol in the water off the coast south of Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of boats, helicopters, and divers scrambled to rescue more than 470 people, including 325 high-school students on a school trip, after the ferry sank, killing at least four and injuring 14.