Beyond the Firmament: Understanding Science and the Theology of CreationAs debates within the Church over the scientific details of creation become more frequent, the experts seem to grow more entrenched while the rest of us only become more confused. Somewhere between the endless arguments over distant starlight and Carbon-14 dating, calculating the mathematical improbabilities of things that already exist, and parsing ancient Hebrew and Greek, somebody needs to ask the simple question, If 3,500 years of scientific progress can't help modern Christians figure out Genesis, then how could the ancient Israelities possibly have understood it so well? What secret did this newly liberated gaggle of Hebrew nomads take with them out of Egypt that holds the key to understanding God's telling of His own creation story? Beyond the Firmament challenges all creationist camps --whether Young-Earth, Old-Earth, or Theistic Evolutionist -- to step outside of traditional paradigms and recognize how our modern, Western, post-Enlightenment scientific worldview actually blinds us from seeing the simple truth of Creation as it was originally intended, and how our failure to grasp the theological significance of the Biblical creation model puts science and faith on a collision course. |
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... and why we should put ourselves in the mindset of the original author and audience of Genesis, and how doing so will help us understand the real message of Genesis so we can get beyond the debates about creation, age, and evolution.
... and why we should put ourselves in the mindset of the original author and audience of Genesis, and how doing so will help us understand the real message of Genesis so we can get beyond the debates about creation, age, and evolution.
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Steve Martin An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution http://evanevodialogue.blogspot.com As one of the few “conversational tone” books I've read ... For anyone who might be interested in looking into the issue of evolutionary creationism, ...
Steve Martin An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution http://evanevodialogue.blogspot.com As one of the few “conversational tone” books I've read ... For anyone who might be interested in looking into the issue of evolutionary creationism, ...
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Evolution (Biology). 3. Providence and government of God—Biblical teaching. 4. Apologetics. I. Title. BS650.G56 2007 215—dc21 2007935048 Related Websites: http://www.beyondthefirmament.com http://www.watertreepress.com Contents Preface ...
Evolution (Biology). 3. Providence and government of God—Biblical teaching. 4. Apologetics. I. Title. BS650.G56 2007 215—dc21 2007935048 Related Websites: http://www.beyondthefirmament.com http://www.watertreepress.com Contents Preface ...
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151 Part IV: What about Evolution? Chapter 9: A Record of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Chapter 10: The Universal Tree of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Acknowledgements ...
151 Part IV: What about Evolution? Chapter 9: A Record of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Chapter 10: The Universal Tree of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Acknowledgements ...
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... or that such a God could only allow evolution to work in a manner contrary to facts of the fossil record (as a story of slow and steady linear progress toward Homo sapiens, for example), then a particular, partisan (and minority) ...
... or that such a God could only allow evolution to work in a manner contrary to facts of the fossil record (as a story of slow and steady linear progress toward Homo sapiens, for example), then a particular, partisan (and minority) ...
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Contents
Natural Revelation | 17 |
Special Revelation | 35 |
What Can the Bible Tell Us about Nature? | 50 |
The Context of Creation | 51 |
Missing the Point of Genesis | 75 |
Learning from Our Mistakes | 93 |
What Can Nature Tell Us about Itself? | 110 |
The Apparent Age of the Universe | 111 |
The Challenges of Cosmic History | 131 |
The Challenge of Geologic History | 151 |
What about Evolution? | 172 |
A Record of Creation | 173 |
The Universe Tree of Life | 193 |
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