Paul had contact with the epicurean philosophers. These men he encountered believed in an ancient view of evolution-that atoms came together randomly to form things in the materialistic world. So Christianity debating evolution today is not really anything new.
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| Epicurus |
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered
him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a
setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the
resurrection.
Acts 17:18