Cristianity is, among the great religions, most explicitly history-conscious, and in this sense evolutionistic. It affirms that the history of mankind and of the world is not merely an illusion or an irremediable evil. History is the vehicle of creation. The world had a beginning, and will have an end.
T. Dobzhanky, The Biology of Ultimate Concern (New York: New American Library,1967), p. 37.