”I believe in God almighty, and in Christ Jesus, his only Son, our Lord who was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary” (The Old Roman Creed). This, for those who believe, is the good news of Christmas, that God descend to en-flesh himself, that he should dwell with us. But the news is also resisted. The doctrine of the Virgin birth is, for example, an anathema to modern scientism, the belief in the universal applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints. According to this view,…