Edited by Kathryn Applegate and J. B. Stump Foreword by Deborah Haarsma
Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to
evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from
the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals
have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding
to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this
journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith?
Here are ...
Grace, Hope and Healing for Those Who Feel Trapped
by Matthew S. Stanford
There are heated discussions happening on the conflict between
science and faith. This disagreement tends to focus around three
main issues, one of them being what causes our sinful behavior. The
intense conflict has to do with biblically defined sinful behaviors
and if there just might be a biological predisposition for these
behaviors. The Biology of Sin speaks to this debate and
hopefully ...
The debate over evolution and creation has raged for decades and
shows no signs of letting up. Many promote one view as the only
reasonable solution. But what are the main viewpoints, and just why
do they disagree? In the midst of an increasingly intense dispute,
Gerald Rau answers the important questions with level-headed
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Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that
God?s interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally
by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. In Part One,
the authors conduct a comparative study of the Christian model with
other religious and philosophical depictions to show that the
biblical God interacts with the physical universe in a truly novel
way. ...
How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature
by Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt
Meaningful or meaningless? Purposeful or pointless? When we look
at nature, whether at our living earth or into deepest space, what
do we find? In stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world
is meaningless, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt reveal a cosmos
charged with both meaning and purpose. Their journey begins with
Shakespeare and ranges through Euclid's geometry, the fine-tuning
...
Christians affirm that everything exists because of God--from
subatomic quarks to black holes. Science often claims to explain
nature without including God at all. And thinking Christians often
feel forced to choose between the two. But the good news is that we
don't have to make a choice. Science does not overthrow the Bible.
Faith does not require rejecting science. World-renowned scientist
Francis ...