Personally, I use Behe and Tim Keller as an examples of people who accept common descent all the time when I am talking to people in the homeschool world. They are trusted figures there and sometimes pointing that out makes people less hostile to the idea of Christians accepting evolutionary theory. But most of the time I get the shocked and confused reaction Brad described. Or people chalk it up to Behe being Catholic, which is a black mark in many conservative Evangelical’s minds and explains why he can’t totally be trusted on matters of theology. Tim Keller they don’t quite know what to do with other than assume he got corrupted by all those New York liberals he hangs out with.
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