But it is not okay to be a Christian and believe in secular evolution. That is, that there was no intelligent design in the process of evolution. That would be a Christian living a hypocritical lie. And it cannot work. I am a Christian and I believe in evolution. The first two chapters of Genesis were never intended by the author to be literal history; they're Hebrew poetry. As such, they give us theological not historical truth. This means that the theory of evolution does not conflict with the Bible. If it doesn't conflict with the Bible it doesn't conflict with Christianity. What evolution does conflict with is a fundamentalist understanding of the Bible, but that is not the Bible itself; its just a modern interpretation of it. It is entirely reasonable to be a Christian and believe in evolution. Certainly many Christians believe in evolution. Sometimes in so doing they absorb ideas which are not put forward by people who understand the Bible correctly and so contain information which is not correct. One examples of this is related to the type of literature represented in Genesis. It is formed as prose and intended to be interpreted as a historical document. The 'toledoth phrases' which regularly appear through the book indicate the end of particular sections, possibly the tablets on which they were written. It is also certainly true that the Genesis creation account has its theological aspect which proceeds from its historical statements about the creator. If evolution is