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How we got here is neither one thing nor the other

How does one reconcile creation and evolution?

The same way one reconciles a fish and a bicycle.

Eric Welch

Freeport, Illinois, US

• It’s cause and effect. Evolution is the cause and creation the effect.

Declan Houton

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• By learning to enjoy the mystery.

Jodie Mathies

Oakland, California, US

• Birth and growing up? James Beckford Saunders Coburg, Victoria, Australia

• In the beginning there was potential.

Barney Smith

Bristol, England, UK

• God only knows! Alasdair Gardiner Penn, England, UK

• Just as one does with death and eternal life, science and miracles, determinism and free

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