seeking book recommendations

Background: My church (conservative, Southern Baptist) maintains a small
bookstore. A number of weeks agao, someone in the congregation asked for
some books of the evolution/creation controversy: in response, my pastor
stocked Johnson's Darwin on Trial and Well's Icons on Evolution. Dembski's
Design Inference was also there. As a theistic evolutionist, I found that
selection rather unbalanced and brought my concerns to my pastor (who knows
my TE position and respects it, evn though I'm not sure he agrees. After I
showed him some reviews of Wells, he pulled that book (Wells' membership in
the Unification Church had a lot to do with that decision). As good TE
material, I recommended Miller's Finding Darwin's God, George Murphy's
books, Francis Collins' Faith and the Human Genome essay and also the essays

on Allen Harvey's webpage.

I'm now seeking other recommendations of different types: first, any other
theistic evolution books, sound in both theology and science, understandable

to a layperson?

Second, any books critical of evolution, written from a Christian worldview
but without gross distortions of science and the scientific method? What I
said to my pastor was, "You know my bias, I'm not going to be crazy about
any anti-evolution book, but if you are looking for an anti-evolution book,
you can do better than Wells!" I actually considered recommending Behe,
though what I would like is something better than the Johnson/Dembski/Behe
trio.

The closer the author is to "conservative" and "evangelical" the better the
recommendation is likely to be received. Someone connected to the Southern
Baptist convention would be ideal!
Received on Mon Mar 28 12:34:18 2005