This volume of more than two dozen essays written by highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America provides the most comprehensive critique of theistic evolution yet produced, opening the door to scientific and theological alternatives.
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Contributors |
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Foreword |
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General Introductions |
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Scientific and Philosophical Introduction: Defining Theistic Evolution |
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Biblical and Theological Introduction: The Incompatibility of Theistic Evolution with the Biblical Account of Creation and with Important Christian Doctrines |
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SECTION I THE SCIENTIFIC CRITIQUE OF THEISTIC EVOLUTION |
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Section I, Part 1 The Failure of Neo-Darwinism |
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1 Three Good Reasons for People of Faith to Reject Darwin's Explanation of Life |
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2 Neo-Darwinism and the Origin of Biological Form and Information |
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3 Evolution: A Story without a Mechanism |
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4 Are Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Accurately Pointing toward First Life? |
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5 Digital Evolution: Predictions of Design |
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6 The Difference It Doesn't Make: Why the "Front-End Loaded" Concept of Design Fails to Explain the Origin of Biological Information |
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7 Why DNA Mutations Cannot Accomplish What Neo-Darwinism Requires |
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8 Theistic Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Does It Work? |
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9 Evidence from Embryology Challenges Evolutionary Theory |
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Section I, Part 2 The Case against Universal Common Descent and for a Unique Human Origin |
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10 The Fossil Record and Universal Common Ancestry |
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11 Universal Common Descent: A Comprehensive Critique |
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12 Five Questions Everyone Should Ask about Common Descent |
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13 The Battle over Human Origins (Introduction to Chapters 14--16) |
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14 Missing Transitions: Human Origins and the Fossil Record |
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15 Evidence for Human Uniqueness |
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16 An Alternative Population Genetics Model |
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17 Pressure to Conform Leads to Bias in Science |
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SECTION II THE PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE OF THEISTIC EVOLUTION |
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18 Why Science Needs Philosophy |
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19 Should Theistic Evolution Depend on Methodological Naturalism? |
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20 How to Lose a Battleship: Why Methodological Naturalism Sinks Theistic Evolution |
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21 How Theistic Evolution Kicks Christianity Out of the Plausibility Structure and Robs Christians of Confidence that the Bible Is a Source of Knowledge |
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22 How to Think about God's Action in the World |
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23 Theistic Evolution and the Problem of Natural Evil |
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24 Bringing Home the Bacon: The Interaction of Science and Scripture Today |
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25 The Origin of Moral Conscience: Theistic Evolution versus Intelligent Design |
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26 Darwin in the Dock: C. S. Lewis on Evolution |
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SECTION III THE BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF THEISTIC EVOLUTION |
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27 Theistic Evolution Undermines Twelve Creation Events and Several Crucial Christian Doctrines |
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28 Theistic Evolution Is Incompatible with the Teachings of the Old Testament |
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29 Theistic Evolution Is Incompatible with the Teachings of the New Testament |
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30 Theistic Evolution Is Incompatible with Historical Christian Doctrine |
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31 Additional Note: B. B. Warfield Did Not Endorse Theistic Evolution as It Is Understood Today |
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General Index |
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Scripture Index |
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J. P. Moreland (PhD, University of Southern California) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University. He is an author of, contributor to, or editor of over ninety books, including The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters.
Stephen Meyer (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the director of the Discovery Institute's Center of Science and Culture. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestselling book Darwin's Doubt.
Chris Shaw (PhD, Queen's University, Belfast) is professor of drug discovery in the school of pharmacy at Queen's University in Belfast. He is the author of hundreds of peer-reviewed papers and the cofounder of a biomarker discovery company.
Ann Gauger (PhD, University of Washington) is director of science communication and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. She is also a senior research scientist at the Biologic Institute.
Wayne Grudem (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Distinguished Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary. He is a member of the Translation Oversight Committee for the English Standard Version of the Bible, the general editor of the ESV Study Bible, and the author of over twenty-five books.
Douglas D. Axe (PhD, California Institute of Technology) is the director of Biologic Institute, a founding editor of BIO-Complexity, and the author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed. He is a contributor to Theistic Evolution.
C. John Collins (PhD, University of Liverpool) is professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been a research engineer, church-planter, and teacher. He was the Old Testament Chairman for the English Standard Version Bible and is author of The God of Miracles, Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?, and Genesis 14: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary. He and his wife have two grown children.
John D. Currid (PhD, University of Chicago) is the Carl W. McMurray Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, and serves as project director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel (1995-present). He lectures and preaches worldwide.
Guy Prentiss Waters (PhD, Duke University) is James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and numerous chapters, articles, and reviews. He is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).
Gregg R. Allison (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is professor of Christian theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is secretary of the Evangelical Theological Society, a book review editor for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, an elder at Sojourn Community Church, and a theological strategist for Harbor Network. Allison has taught at several colleges and seminaries, including Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and is the author of numerous books, including Historical Theology; Sojourners and Strangers; and Roman Catholic Theology and Practice.
Fred G. Zaspel (PhD, Free University of Amsterdam) serves as a pastor at Reformed Baptist Church in Franconia, Pennsylvania, an adjunct professor of systematic theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and executive editor at Books At a Glance. He is the author of The Theology of B. B. Warfield and Warfield on the Christian Life, coauthor of New Covenant Theology, and has published numerous booklets, articles, and book reviews.