Not surprisingly, therefore, many Christians ended up tragically fighting evolution along with most early human-rights struggles (woman’s suffrage, voting rights for those on the margins, racism, classism, homophobia, earth care, justice itself, even slavery)192, because we had no evolutionary notion of Christ who was forever “groaning in one great act of giving birth” (Romans 8:22). We should have been on the front line of all of these issues, and our bold proclamation of love and justice could have pulled humanity grandly forward.
