Before sometime around 1700, many Europeans thought life could emerge spontaneously from, for example, rotting carcasses and pieces of meat. Eventually some people put those things in sealed jars and, when no bugs (to use a broad term) emerged from them, they realized that spontaneous generation didn't happen.
The point is that Christianity and theism has already existed side-by-side with beliefs about biology that you might think are adversarial to theism.
I wish I would have had a teacher like you!
Well, we try, we try.
Before sometime around 1700, many Europeans thought life could emerge spontaneously from, for example, rotting carcasses and pieces of meat. Eventually some people put those things in sealed jars and, when no bugs (to use a broad term) emerged from them, they realized that spontaneous generation didn't happen.
The point is that Christianity and theism has already existed side-by-side with beliefs about biology that you might think are adversarial to theism.
Just talked about your first paragraph in class too, actually.