Re: Fw: Ohio Votes 13-5 to Adopt Lesson Plan Critical of Evolution

To add to George's and the others' book lists for Denyse:

Haught's _Deeper than Darwin_ is published by Westview Press, 2003. See my
review in the Dec. 2003 issue of PSCF, p. 270. Haught does an excellent job
of critiquing the materialist position. He makes a point that I agree with:
both the creationists and the materialists are guilty of literalizing: the
former the Bible, the latter nature.

Also, a good succinct source: John Haught, _Responses to 101 Questions
about God and Evolution_. Paulist Press, 2001 (which I also reviewed for
PSCF about a year earlier). Haught is also an effective critic of ID as
well as materialism.

To put in one more plug, one I'll be reviewing for "Anglican Theological
Review":
    Samuel Powell, _Participating in God: Creation and Trinity_. Fortress,
2003 (I met Sam at a Templeton Science & Religion Workshop in 1998). The
author, who teaches at Point Loma Nazarene University, integrates recent
science and a Christian, trinitarian understanding of God's action.

Finally, see George's most recent book, _The Cosmos in the Light of the
Cross_. Trinity Press, 2003. You know where he stands!

An important point to make about all of the authors who have been mentioned
in these exchanges. They represent a cross section of the Christian
tradition--Roman Catholics, Protestants of Continental traditions (Lutheran,
Reformed, etc.), and home-grown Protestant evangelical and holiness
traditions (e.g., Nazarene). There is a widespread agreement among
philosophers, theologians and scientists in the community of faith that God
and Evolution go together; those who have addressed the issues reject the
weak logic and polemic of both materialsts like Dawkins and ID propagandists
like Johnson and Wells. The stuff is out there, Denyse; just go to
Amazon.com or your favorite on-line service and you can get them all! Read
even a few of them and I bet you'll be farther along in understanding than
those strange bedfellows of the politics of science, Dawkins and Johnson.

Bob Schneider

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "Denyse O'Leary" <oleary@sympatico.ca>
Cc: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Ohio Votes 13-5 to Adopt Lesson Plan Critical of Evolution

> Denyse O'Leary wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Ted and all, for your thoughts on this.
> >
> > I am currently working on a rush job for a
> > textbook client, so cannot reply to individual
> > contributions as yet, but hope to do so.
> >
> > Everything Ted says below and everything that
> > you have said convinces me that the development
> > of critical thinking exercises in this area is
> > LONG overdue.
> >
> > In my opinion, Christian evolutionists ought to
> > have been sponsoring the critical thinking
> > exercises, not just going along with everything
> > that the atheistic Darwinists say.
>
> Take the trouble to find out what "Christian evolutionists" have actually
> written. Others have already noted some titles. I'll add
>
> Philip Hefner, _The Human Factor_ (Fortress, 1993),
>
> Denis Edwards, _The God of Evolution_ (Paulist, 2000),
>
> Karl Schmitz-Moormann, _Theology of Creation in an Evolutionary World_
> (Pilgrim, 1997),
>
> John Haught, _Deeper than Darwin_ (I don't have publishing info here -
it's
> quite recent),
>
> & will even add
>
> George Murphy, _The Trademark of God_ (Morehouse-Barlow, 1986).
>
> Shalom,
> George
>
>
>
> George L. Murphy
> gmurphy@raex.com
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 10 21:07:52 2004