This creates the impression in the minds of many Christians that the Christian doctrine of creation is about how and when the earth and life were created. By and large, however, the Christian consensus of belief about creation has included very little reference to when or how God created. What is so ironic in this particular locus of Christian belief and reflection is that many dyed-in-the-wool creationists who insist dogmatically on a young earth and sudden creation of species excluding any evolutionary processes fall unthinkingly into heresies such as equating finitude with evil or with the
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