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 stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Among the contributors are Scientists such as
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BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity invite us to see the harmony between the sciences and biblical faith on issues including cosmology, biology, paleontology, evolution, human origins, the environment, and more.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780830852901
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 05-11-2016
Pages: 200
Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Series: Biologos Books on Science and Christianity
About the Author
Kathryn Applegate (PhD, The Scripps Research Institute) is program director at BioLogos, where she designs and coordinates programs aimed at translating scholarship on origins for the evangelical church. J.B. Stump (PhD, Boston University) is senior editor at BioLogos. He has also been a philosophy professor and academic administrator, and he frequently speaks to churches and other groups on the intersection of science and Christianity. He is the author of Science and Christianity: An Introduction to the Issues and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity.
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