{"id":5096,"date":"2006-10-23T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/be-still-my-heart.html"},"modified":"2006-10-23T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T10:14:07","slug":"be-still-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/be-still-my-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"Be still, my heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Cooperman of the WaPo channels Dr. Teabing in his report on a new exhibit in DC:<\/a><\/p>\n

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If 40 percent of Americans refuse to believe that humans evolved from earlier hominids, how many will accept that the book we know as the Bible evolved from earlier texts and was not handed down, in toto, by God in its present form?<\/p>\n

The fossil evidence for human evolution is permanently on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Hard evidence that the Bible took its present shape over centuries will be on display for the next 11 weeks, from today through Jan. 7, across the Mall at the Smithsonian\u2019s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.<\/p>\n

They are rarer than dinosaur bones, these fragments of papyrus and animal skin that tell the Bible\u2019s story. With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mollie at Get Religion deftly takes the piece apart. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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