Should Christians Embrace Evolution?
Biblical and Scientific Responses
Inter-Varsity Press
Published on 19. April 2013
192 pages
978-1-84474-901-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 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...
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Nottingham
United Kingdom
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Ash Carter is an accountant who for four years worked at St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London, both as an accountant and a Bible teacher. He has recently given up hope of playing football for England and started training at Oak Hill Theological College instead. He is married to Mim and they have two young sons.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 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
- The textual evidence
- The theological necessity
- Denis Alexander's 'third way'
- Adam fathered the entire human race
- Adam's headship over humanity
- Headship has ontological roots
- 'That which he has not assumed he has not healed'
- Conclusion
- 4. The Fall and death
- 'As in Adam all die'
- 'So in Christ shall all be made alive'
- The respective influences achieved by both Adam and Christ
- The respective attributes of God displayed in Adam and Christ
- The respective ultimate effects upon us due to Adam and Christ
- '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?
- Earth and human history
- Paradise lost
- 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?
- Conclusion
- 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
- Conclusion
- 10. Does the Genome Provide Evidence for Common Ancestry?
- Pseudogenes
- Are some pseudogenes functional?
- Vitamin C and pseudogenes
- GULO and its pseudogene
- Evolutionary significance
- Does the GULO pseudogene have any function?
- Olfactory receptor genes
- Summary of pseudogenes
- Mobile genetic elements
- Retrotransposons
- Do Alu sequences have any function?
- Retroviral insertions
- Conclusion
- 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
