PERSPECTIVES on Science and Christian Faith JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION In This Issue … New Ideas in Evolutionary Biology: From NDMS to EES Human Evolution and a Cultural Understanding of Original Sin A Proposed Model for the Evolutionary Creation of Human Beings: From the Image of God to the Origin of Sin Beyond the Cosmic Fall and Natural Evil “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.” Psalm 111:10 VOLUME 68, NUMBER 1 MARCH 2016 (US ISSN 0892-2675) (CPM #40927506) Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Manuscript Guidelines © 2016 by the American Scientifi c Affi liation The pages of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (PSCF) are open Editor to original, unpublished contributions that interact with science and Christian JAMES C. PETERSON (Roanoke College and faith in a manner consistent with scientifi c and theological integrity. 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He writes, USA, the National Academy of Medicine of the USA, To the standard paradigm of slow accumulation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Soci- random point mutations as the major mechanism of ety of the UK jointly gathered the scientists directly biological variation must now be added new data involved (and some advisors) to share the latest and concepts of symbiosis, gene duplication, hori- developments, and to consider the best societal use, zontal gene transfer, retrotransposition, epigenetic of the newest gene-editing techniques. Every once in control networks, niche construction, stress-direct- a while there is a trigger that accelerates discovery ed mutations, and large-scale reengineering of the and development in a particular fi eld. CRISPR-Cas9 genome in response to environmental stimuli. appears to be such a technology for understanding, Garte argues that we should recognize these fur- and precisely changing, the genes that are central to ther inputs in an “extended evolutionary synthesis,” life. There will be much from CRISPR-Cas9 for us to and that such should open us to realize that it is not learn and think through in the coming years. just random events that develop life. God might The development of CRISPR-Cas9 is an example of not only have started a planned unfolding of life, how fast the sciences keep moving. The sciences, what Howard Van Till called in this journal a “fully and theology too, are, of course, both human con- gifted creation.” God might well intervene among or structs. Hence, from a limited perspective, they try to through these many newly recognized inputs, along understand our world. Science focuses on our mate- the way. rial universe; theology, on God and what God has revealed. All one has to do is to look at the night sky Our second article listens to the evidence that we and what we can see of hundreds of billions of other human beings are at our core inherently cultured galaxies, to start to sense how little we know of what beings. Benno van den Toren notes that this experi- is. It is a privilege and a delight to make each step ence of culture is not optional for human beings. It toward better understanding. Many of those steps in has always been central to our survival and who we the sciences do not tell us much about theology, and are. He sees recognizing this characteristic of our ori- there are points of theology that do not further our gin and ongoing nature as potentially insightful for science. understanding how sin originated and spread.