Re: seeking book recommendations

Will someone discus " The Case for a Creator" by
Lee Strobel?
--- "Freeman, Louise Margaret" <lfreeman@mbc.edu>
wrote:
>
> 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!
>
>
>

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Received on Mon Mar 28 13:10:51 2005