Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

The abandonment of a literal interpretation of the Bible, and especially of the first eleven chapters of Genesis, has turned many professing Christians into atheists. Charles Templeton, pastor for seven years of a successful and growing church in Toronto, Canada, and at one time close friend and co-evangelist with Billy Graham,19 abandoned the faith entirely when he decided he could no longer believe the biblical account of creation. In fact, he confesses that the foundational reason for his years of agnosticism, as it has been for many others, was: “I had always doubted the Genesis account of creation.”