John Walton is an influential Old Testament theologian at Wheaton College with an unorthodox and non-literal view of Genesis.¹ He is also an ardent promotor of molecules-to-man evolution and even serves on the advisory council of the theistic evolutionary organization BioLogos.² Walton recently participated in a BioLogos video interview related to the coronavirus pandemic

Multinational case reports on a small number of children who have had COVID-19, or possibly exposed to the novel coronavirus, tell of a potentially fatal widespread reaction that could lead to cardiac or respiratory failure and shock.

People will often ask, "Why would a good and perfect God allow bad things to happen?" This question seems all the more relevant today as all of humanity is suffering from the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Internal clocks are amazing examples of God’s providential care for his creation. One recent study showed embryonic “clocks” in chickens function like a construction schedule for the formation of their bodies.¹ Another study indicated that plants are able to communicate and synchronize their internal clocks in remarkable ways.²

“Were it not for the asteroid, humans would never have evolved,” said Ian Miller, curator of paleobotany and director of earth and space sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.¹