Contemporary Myth-Making

N. T. Wright on the nonsense of popular myth-making:

The general popular belief that the early stories of Genesis were straightforwardly disproved by Charles Darwin is of course nonsense, however many times it is reinforced in contemporary myth-making. Things are just not that simple, in biblical theology or science.

—"The Letter to the Romans" (vol. 10 in The New Interpreter's Bible; Abingdon Press: Nashville, 2002), p. 526.