Most likely Hawley would agree with this quote from Robert J. Schneider's essay "HUMAN EVOLUTION AND THE IMAGE OF GOD"
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I have learned to patiently keep on explaining that neither Darwin nor any other scientist studying human evolution has ever asserted that humans are descended from apes. What all have said is that the hominids, which include our species Homo sapiens, and the other primates, to which the family of the great apes belong, diverged from a common ancestor millions of years ago.
I doubt that someone who is disturbed by claims the we came from apes would find much comfort in even common ancestry with chimps.
About the only one of these that I find interesting is the following
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-Belief in an infallible and inerrant Bible actually allows for the acceptance of biological evolution and common ancestry
My guess is that Hawley's interpretation of the Bible is non-literal (he does not indicate a literal reading) or that he does read the bible literally but sees some areas where the Bible is not as specific as literalistic YEC proponents suggest.
The following I found to be just a play on words.
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-Gravity is not a fact and equally surprising is that it never will be. It, along with evolution, is an explanation based upon facts and verified through testing, i.e., a theory.
Gravity is both fact (apples do fall toward the center of the earth) and theory (general relativity). I suspect that most non scientists are familiar with the fact of gravity and would feel that they were being toyed with.
I'm probably not curious enough to buy Hawley's book.
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