Re: seeking book recommendations

Lee Strobel is firmly in the Johnson/Dembski/Wells/Behe/Meyers camp.

It gets a bit technical in places, but the edited volume, by the
Keith Miller, Perspectives on an Evolving Creation
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802805124/qid=1112034614/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-4557317-9223203?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
is a book in this category. Don't know if any of the chapter authors
are SBC though. Most are ASA members.

DISCLOSURE: I'm one of the chapter authors.

ASA member David Wilcox has a new book: God and Evolution: A
Faith-Based Understanding
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817014748/qid=1112034829/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-4557317-9223203).
David is a professor at Eastern College which is, I believe, a
Baptist college, but I'm not sure which stripe of Baptist it is.

TG

>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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