I certainly hope that your agnosticism is “weak and fresh enough to be torn away,” Suan, because, it seems to me, you’re overreacting to the concerns you raise. Let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, that “Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Human Evolution” is correct. How is that a defeater of Christian belief? What adjustment to a Christian worldview would that require? That God does not exist? That Jesus of Nazareth did not rise from the dead? Obviously not! As a student of my work, you should have good reasons for affirming those truths, reasons which are independent of and so in no way undermined by the standard account of evolutionary origins. So why are you so easily divested of those beliefs?
I suspect that the reason your faith was so easily abandoned is that you had a terribly warped and distorted vision of what a Christian worldview is. I’m sorry to be so blunt, but you need to hear this. The Christian worldview can be thought of as a web of beliefs, rather like a spider’s web, with core doctrines represented by the innermost strands of the web and less important doctrines represented by the strands radiating from the web’s core to its periphery. Changes in core doctrines will result in great reverberations throughout the web, whereas changes in less central doctrines will require adjustments to the web but will not destroy the entire structure.
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