God speaks. By his Spirit. Through the Bible. About his Son.

This is one of the most crucial things for any Christian to get to grips with. If we understand how God speaks, then we can truly know him. Everything else slots into place. We see Jesus clearly. We fall in love with him more deeply. We make sense of our world. But get this wrong and we lose it all.

This book covers the whole sweep of the subject from start to finish. It puts all the parts of the jigsaw in their proper place. Yet, mixing our metaphors, it's also an appetizer, whetting your palate for more...

Norman C Nevin (Editor)

CONTRIBUTORS

Foreword

Preface: A Twenty-First-Century Challenge

1. Evolution and the Church

The relationship between evolution and the Church

The implications of embracing evolution

Synthesizing contradictory worldviews

The pastoral implications

2. The Language of Genesis

Reading Genesis in historical context

Reading Genesis in a Babylonian literary context

Chaos

Genesis as demythologized text

Genesis without any demythologization

Genesis and sequence

The language of Genesis

3. Adam and Eve

Adam was a real, historical person

Adam fathered the entire human race

Conclusion

4. The Fall and death

'As in Adam all die'

'So in Christ shall all be made alive'

'All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well'57

'Let God be true, and every man be a liar'

5. Creation, Redemption and Eschatology

Gnosticism

The Bible as an earthly book

Physical is good

What about evolution?

Deliberate history

Cosmic redemption

Christ-like Bible interpretation

The teaching of the Apostle Paul

Biblical consistency

Signs and wonders

Why do we die?

The big picture

What would Jesus say?

Christ the non-Gnostic Redeemer

Did Jesus teach Nicodemus that death was not physical?

Conclusions

6. The Nature and Character of God

Is God a deceiver?

Evolution and deistic or pagan conceptions of God

How does God reveal himself?

7. Faith and Creation

8. TOWARDS A SCIENCE WORTHY OF CREATURES IN IMAGO DEI

The biblical basis of modern science – then and now

A strategy for ID to regain the initiative from theistic evolution

An 'edge' strategy for intelligent design theory

Living on the edge of Christianity: scientific progress as recovery from the fall

A concluding cautionary tale: theodicy as the original theory of intelligent design

9. Interpretation of Scientific evidence 9A. Homology

Molecular homology

9B. The Nature of the Fossil Record

Genetic fossils

C. Chromosomal Fusion and common ancestry

The evidence for chromosomal fusion

Has there been a chromosomal fusion event in human history?

9D. Information and Thermodynamics

Creation by the word of God

Information in living systems

Thermodynamics

10. Does the Genome Provide Evidence for Common Ancestry?

Pseudogenes

Mobile genetic elements

Retroviral insertions

11. The Origin of Life: Scientists Play Dice

No place for natural selection in explanations of the origin of life

The smallest autonomous living organism

Information and the genetic code

Could the first organism have formed by amino acids or nucleotides combining in random chemical fashion?

Theories of self-assembly and self-organisation

The RNA world259

Evolutionary algorithms

Intelligence and the origin of information

Conclusion: Should Christians embrace Evolution?

The uncertainty of science

Theistic evolution's theology

Interpreting the scientific data

The heart of the matter

God speaks. By his Spirit. Through the Bible. About his Son.

This is one of the most crucial things for any Christian to get to grips with. If we understand how God speaks, then we can truly know him. Everything else slots into place. We see Jesus clearly. We fall in love with him more deeply. We make sense of our world. But get this wrong and we lose it all.

This book covers the whole sweep of the subject from start to finish. It puts all the parts of the jigsaw in their proper place. Yet, mixing our metaphors, it’s also an appetizer, whetting your palate for more...

This is a most helpful compilation, which is designed to make one think very seriously about the whole issue of evolution and the Bible.To those who love the Scriptures, and seek to be faithful to them, this will prove enormously helpful.  
 Wallace Benn, Bishop of Lewes  
   
   
 When it comes to the debate about reconciling evolutionary theory to the Christian faith, some theistic evolutionist friends give the impression that,

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The topic of creation and evolution is firmly on the Christian’s agenda. Many Christians now teach that evolution is wrong. Yet others say that evolution and the Bible can be reconciled. Should Christians embrace Evolution makes an important contribution to this debate.  
Written partly as a response to the recent book by Denis Alexander (a Christian who believes in theistic evolution) this book is a collection of essays by Bible scholars who are committed to the authority of the scriptures and scientists who are committed to an accurate examination of the scientific facts.   
The first seven articles aim to prove that one cannot accept evolutionary teaching without compromising essential teachings of the Bible. For instance, in one chapter the author shows that Paul’s argument in Romans 5 is meaningless unless Adam was a real person who was the father of us all. I found all bar one of the articles well written and thought provoking.   
The second seven articles look at the current scientific evidence for evolution. These are written in a more technical style. The authors each carefully weigh up the evidence covering a number of areas including homology, the human genome and (most interestingly) the origin of life. They each come to the same conclusion – evolution is not scientifically proven beyond doubt.   
This is a serious book on a serious subject and is well worth reading whatever your view on this subject. But be warned: it may change your view on life, the universe and in fact everything!

Should Christians Embrace Evolution

Should Christians Embrace Evolution?

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