I don't think there is any difficulty at all in reconciling evolutionary theory and a Christian cosmos, unless you are a fundie. And you know they are a minority among Christians. I'm pretty sure my dad believes in evolution, and he's a Protestant minister (which is BTW I think why a lot of this religion-bashing stuff annoys me -- I know for a fact that he saved many peoples' lives at the drug rehab center he ran before retirement. Evil life-saving minister!).
I don't think Augustine would have had a problem with it. Hell, I think "man comes from animals" would have appealed to him, since he could have said this meant people without reason are basically beasts.
--- "Charles A. Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> I think what Paz was referring to was a metaphysical
> conception of
> time, not the obvious empirical idea of history. The
> Christian cosmos
> so to speak as opposed to the Greek or Roman cosmos.
>
>
> This leads to something I've never understood, and
> that is the problem of
> reconciling say evolutionary history with a
> Christian cosmos. These
> are not necessarily in conflict, unless you make the
> conflict a point
> of `truth' in some cosmic sense of the word. There
> doesn't necessarily
> have to be a one to one exact match between everyday
> events, say
> as in evolutionary sciences, and the larger
> metaphysical constructions of
> the world.
>
> Anyway... lunch hour is short
>
> CG
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