Re: seeking book recommendations

One site of Gert Korthof that has reviews of most books of all
persuasions worth reading on the subject can be found at

http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/korthof.htm#C1

This site could keep you busy for days.

Al Koop

>>> "Freeman, Louise Margaret" <lfreeman@mbc.edu> 03/28/05 12:31 PM >>>

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 13:19:17 2005