Science and Faith
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Improbable Planet : How Earth Became Humanitys Home
$20.00Add to cartThe Latest Scientific Discoveries Point to an Intentional Creator
Most of us remember the basics from science classes about how Earth came to be the only known planet that sustains complex life. But what most people don’t know is that the more thoroughly researchers investigate the history of our planet, the more astonishing the story of our existence becomes. The number and complexity of the astronomical, geological, chemical, and biological features recognized as essential to human existence have expanded explosively within the past decade. An understanding of what is required to make possible a large human population and advanced civilizations has raised profound questions about life, our purpose, and our destiny. Are we really just the result of innumerable coincidences? Or is there a more reasonable explanation?
This fascinating book helps nonscientists understand the countless miracles that undergird the exquisitely fine-tuned planet we call home–as if Someone had us in mind all along.
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4 Views On Creation Evolution And Intelligent Design
$19.99Add to cartFour Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current “state of the conversation” about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions: Young Earth Creationism – Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism – Hugh Ross (Reasons to Believe) Evolutionary Creation – Deborah B. Haarsma (BioLogos) Intelligent Design – Stephen C. Meyer (The Discovery Institute) The contributors offer their best defense of their position addressing questions such as: What is your position on origins – understood broadly to include the physical universe, life, and human beings in particular? What do you take to be the most persuasive arguments in defense of your position? How do you demarcate and correlate evidence about origins from current science and from divine revelation? What hinges on answering these questions correctly?
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If God Then What
$13.99Add to cartA profound, quirky and amusing take on life’s biggest questions.People encounter truth by sharing stories and asking questions. Andrew Wilson asks nine big questions about truth, origins and redemption, and wonders aloud about the possible answers, representing a new fresh way of communicating the gospel.
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Creer En Tiempos Dificiles – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartEs posible creer en Dios en un mundo postmoderno donde las ciencias son la verdad actual? Contradice la fe a la razon? Este libro responde a estas preguntas desde el punto de vista academico haciendo una defensa de la fe, pero desde un riguroso analisis que permite ver que la fe no es contraria a la razon. El avance de la ciencia en el siglo XX ha llevado al hombre del siglo XXI a una espiral de interrogantes que lo ha precipitado a resumir sus dudas de forma simplista: Dios no existe porque ya no es necesario para justificar las maravillas de la naturaleza. Hoy la confrontacion entre ciencia y fe estan claramente definidas, al igual que la sociedad: dividida entre creencia y descreimiento. daremos la espalda a la ciencia porque se la percibe como una amenaza para Dios? daremos la espalda a la fe admitiendo que la ciencia esta acorralando a la religion? Son tiempos dificiles para el creyente. Pero, tal vez por ello, tiempos apasionantes para la busqueda de una fe autentica y dinamica. Una fe personal, interiorizada y experimentada, lo bastante fuerte como para entablar debate con una sociedad que ha dejado de creer en la trascendencia. El libro aporta respuestas coherentes a los problemas de la fe en todas sus dimensiones. Tanto cuando nos confrontamos con preguntas dificiles, como cuando tenemos, inevitablemente, crisis de fe. Un libro bien escrito y bien documentado que aporta una vision global, fresca y coherente al problema de la confrontacion entre ciencia y fe.
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A Dios Por El ADN – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartExiste una tension entre el mundo cientifico y el religioso; si el creacionismo biblico literalista, no es sostenible porque los descubrimientos cientificos lo hacen no viable; y el evolucionismo materialista se muestra cada vez mas impotente a la hora de explicar la complejidad del universo y el origen de la vida cual es la salida? Este libro plantea una tercera via: la del diseno inteligente. Defiende la idea de que el adn, asi como las demas estructuras y procesos fundamentales de la vida, se deben a la accion de un disenador inteligente, y que la investigacion de este diseno inteligente se impondra, tarde o temprano, como disciplina cientifica, pese a los esfuerzos de los cientificos ateos para evitarlo. La ciencia no puede ni debe ir mas alla, ya que su metodo la hace incapaz de escudrinar la identidad del disenador. Para seguir este sendero de la identidad del disenador, hay que darle la mano a la teologia; uniendo el esfuerzo de ambas, que hasta ahora se han visto como enemigas, se hace posible llegar A Dios por el ADN. Un libro cientifico que une los avances de la biologia, en relacion al descubrimiento de la cadena del ADN, con la evidencia cientifica que intuye que las leyes del universo, asi como las de la vida en la Tierra, son el producto de una actividad inteligente y no de la casualidad.
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Old Earth Or Evolutionary Creation
$28.99Add to cart11 Chapters
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Old-earth and evolutionary creationists differ on important subjects, but they also share more than one might expect. In this exciting and groundbreaking volume, representatives from Reasons to Believe and BioLogos engage in a charitable, informed debate over key issues on the relation of Christianity and modern science. -
Divine Imprint : Finding God In The Human Mind
$14.99Add to cartThe so-called New Atheists receive much publicity, but their demand to be provided with incontrovertible evidence for the existence of God, and that such evidence must come from a scientific examination of the physical world, is the wrong approach. As many theologians and philosophers have claimed, the search for God begins by looking inwards into oneself. But what does that mean? Surely looking inwards we find nothing but the contents of one’s own mind. Where does God come in? It is by the examination of the contents of the mind and trying to understand how they got there that one seeks clues about God’s influence on the mind. Our consciousness bears a resemblance to that Consciousness from which it is directly derived. It bears his imprint. It is from the characteristics of that imprint we get to know what kind of God we are dealing with. Only then can we be open to realizing how that other creation of his, the physical world, also bears his imprint.
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Let There Be Science
$15.99Add to cartScience is part of a long history of human response to God’s call to engage with the natural world, starting with the Wisdom Tradition and the great commission in Genesis. This book shows that science is a gift from God, and has a purpose at the heart of the Kingdom, to do with healing and reconciliation of human relationship with the natural world. Written to be accessible to adults and older teenagers, this book is perfect for Christian students, pastors, teachers and other members of congregations who are troubled idea that science and faith are conflicts.
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God Shaped Brain
$20.99Add to cartDiagram Of Brain
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: God, The Brain, And What Went Wrong
1. God Is Love
2. The Human Brain & Broken Love
3. The Infection Of Fear
4. Freedom To LoveSection II: The Battle Between The Conflicting Views About God
5. Love Strikes Back
6. Engaging The Battle
7. Love Stands Firm
8. Changing Our View Of God
9. The Power Of Truth
10. The Truth About Sin
11. Enlarging Our View Of God
12. The Judgment Of God
13. In The Brain Of ChristSection III: Embracing The Goodness Of God
14. Forgiveness
15. When Good Prevails
16 When Love Burns Free.
17. Buddha, Jesus And Preparing Your Brain For Eternity
Addendum: Putting It All Together: Simple Steps To A Healthier Brain
Notes
Glossary
The God-Shaped Brain Study GuideAdditional Info
What you believe about God actually changes your brain. Brain research in neuroscience has found that our thoughts and beliefs affect our physical, mental, and spiritual health. Mind and body are interrelated, and we are designed for healthy relationships of love and trust. When we understand God as good and loving, we flourish. Unfortunately, many of us have distorted images of God and mostly think of him in fearful, punitive ways. This leads us into unhealthy patterns of self-defeating behaviors and toxic relationships. But our lives can change when God renews our minds with a truer picture of him. Psychiatrist Tim Jennings unveils how our brains and bodies thrive when we have a healthy understanding of who God is. He dispels common misconceptions about God and shows how different God concepts affect the brain differently. Our brains can adapt, change, and rewire with redeemed thinking that frees us from unnecessary pain and suffering. Discover how neuroscience and Scripture come together to bring healing and transformation to our lives. This expanded edition now includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion, with questions for learning from Scripture, science and nature, and experience. -
Understanding Creation : A Concise Biblical Doctrine Of Creation
$10.99Add to cartWhat is creation? Is creation automatic or progressive? When and where did God begin creation? In vs. 1 or vs. 3 of Genesis 1? What is vs. 2 all about? How long did it take God to create, and how old is creation? How many accounts of creation are there, one or two? If two, are they contradicting? These and many other relevant questions on creation are theologically answered in this booklet.
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Evolution And The Fall
$29.99Add to cartTackles thorny questions and tensions at the intersection of Scripture and science
What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates-as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest-then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?
This book gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address these difficult questions from the perspectives of biology, theology, history, Scripture, philosophy, and politics. After mapping the territory of challenging questions surrounding human origins and the Fall, the contributors delve into biblical sources and traditional theological accounts as resources for understanding, consider broader cultural implications of the Fall, and propose ways of reimagining the conversation so as to move forward faithfully.
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Signposts To God
$24.99Add to cartThe theories and discoveries in modern physics and astronomy can be daunting to the nonspecialist, and reports of their destructive implications for Christianity can be persuasive. Experimental physicist Peter Bussey introduces readers to these surprising fields of science and shows that they make religious belief very reasonable.
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Believing Scientist : Essays On Science And Religion
$27.99Add to cartElegant writings by a cutting-edge research scientist defending traditional theological and philosophical positions
Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, Stephen Barr in this book addresses a wide range of questions about the relationship between science and religion, providing a beautiful picture of how they can coexist in harmony.
In his first essay, “Retelling the Story of Science,” Barr challenges the widely held idea that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion. He goes on to analyze such topics as the quantum creation of universes from nothing, the multiverse, the Intelligent Design movement, and the implications of neuroscience for the reality of the soul.
Including reviews of highly influential books by such figures as Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Francis S. Collins, Michael Behe, and Thomas Nagel, The Believing Scientist helpfully engages pressing questions that often vex religious believers who wish to engage with the world of science.
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Evolution : Scripture And Nature Say Yes
$16.99Add to cartChristians throughout history have believed that God reveals himself both through Scripture and nature. The metaphor of God’s Two Books is often used to represent these two divine revelations.
The Book of God’s Words is the Bible. Scripture reveals inerrant spiritual truths. These include, the God of Christianity is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the creation is very good, and only humans are created in the Image of God (Gen. 1:1, 27, 31).
The Book of God’s Works is the physical world. Nature declares God’s glory, eternal power, and divine nature (Ps. 19:1; Rom. 1:20). Through the gift of science, our Creator has blessed us with the ability to explore and understand the structure, operation, and origin of his creation.
Together God’s Two Books offer us a complementary divine revelation of who created the world and how he created it.
A majority of Americans view science and religion as being in conflict, according to the Pew Research Center. Christians and non-Christians alike share this view, yet if this perceived conflict misrepresents the relationship between modern science and Christian faith, then it is both unhelpful and unnecessary today.
In Evolution: Scripture and Nature Say Yes, theologian and scientist Denis O. Lamoureux reviews several options for embracing biblical Christianity and findings of science, including biological evolution. Holding to a high view of Scripture alongside an expert appreciation for scientific discovery, Lamoureux further outlines a way to understand passages referring to the natural world in the Bible and also demonstrates how modern science can point toward God.
Lamoureux shares his own story along the way, recounting struggles many readers will relate to on his journey toward PhDs in both theology and biology and a fruitful relationship between the two.
Topics in this book include:
*A biblical model of intelligent design in nature based on Psalm 19 and Romans 1. *Examination of the ancient science in Scripture, such as a flat earth and 3-tier universe. *Comparison of different Christian views on origins-young earth creation, progressive creation (old earth creation), and evolutionary creation.
*Criticisms of the atheistic interpretation of evolution held by Richard Dawkins and his belief that intelligent design is merely an illusion.
*Galileo’s peaceful relationship between Scripture and nature, including his view that “the intention of the Holy Spirit [in the Bible] is to -
Other Side Of The Coyne
$6.00Add to cartThese bite-size guides — digestible in a sitting or two — are great introductions to specific topics. In this book Doug reviews Jerry A. Coyne’s recent, patronizing evolutionary screed, chapter by chapter. Contains a pile of Doug’s hilariously apt metaphors as it deconstructs Coyne’s presuppositions about creationism and science.
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1 Scientists Awareness Of God And Our Universe
$22.00Add to cartOne Scientist’s Awareness of God and Our Universe is an overview of fundamental scientific concepts and how these concepts ultimately affect our human race. Though David M. Henderson begins by presenting the basic concepts of space, matter, and energy, he also delves into the complexities of the galaxies within our universe, stellar evolution, the concept of time, and even the origin of life itself.
By giving readers a better awareness of the vastness of our universe, Henderson provides evidence for a universe created by God, a creation that leaves much mystery yet to discover.
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How I Changed My Mind About Evolution
$18.99Add to cart25 Chapters
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Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith? Here are stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Among the contributors are Scientists such as Francis CollinsDeborah HaarsmaDenis Lamoureux Pastors such as John OrtbergKen FongLaura Truax Biblical scholars such as N. T. WrightScot McKnightTremper Longman III Theologians and philosophers such as James K. A. SmithAmos YongOliver Crisp -
Bible And Science In Harmony
$10.99Add to cartFaithful Life Publishers
If you are searching for Biblical truth as I was, I invite you to come with me on this Scriptural journey that I have been on for over 40 years; finding the Way, learning the Truth, and discovering the purpose of real Life and real happiness.
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Philosophical Theology Presented With A Scientific Twist
$12.00Add to cartLonnie Phillips’ “”Philosophical Ideology”” has been designed to bridge the divide within the Christian Church. What follows in the pages of this book and is, quite honestly, the very essence of this book is an attempt to present the facts about God as Phillips understands Him and what the author went through to get those facts and to also show that journey in order to substantiate God’s character and personality uniquely fashioned. It is as easy as substantiating the words that are written within the pages of this book. Just follow the story line.
“”Philosophical Ideology”” collects praise poetry, sermons, theological essays, and autobiography to provide a window into Phillips’ unique understanding of God Yahweh, the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Angelic Realms, the entire Spiritual World, and all of creation. Lonnie Phillips writes, “I imagine God expressing Himself to me, talking to me, and I take every occasion to listen.” And he invites you to listen, too. Will you?
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Creation Evolution And The Handicapped
$39.95Add to cartThe author shows that evolution is not a logical theory. It is self-contradicting, self-fulfilling, dogmatic, and simply “scientism” cloaked in the guise of a first-century religion. The evolutionary hypothesis is detrimental to operational science, and only the biblical worldview sustains the preconditions for intelligibility sufficient to sustain empirical science. If evolutionary dogma is followed to its logical conclusion, it promotes a climate of death, a devaluing of life, and is directly detrimental to the disabled and the handicapped.
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Creation Evolution And The Handicapped
$24.95Add to cartThe author shows that evolution is not a logical theory. It is self-contradicting, self-fulfilling, dogmatic, and simply “scientism” cloaked in the guise of a first-century religion. The evolutionary hypothesis is detrimental to operational science, and only the biblical worldview sustains the preconditions for intelligibility sufficient to sustain empirical science. If evolutionary dogma is followed to its logical conclusion, it promotes a climate of death, a devaluing of life, and is directly detrimental to the disabled and the handicapped.
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Thinking About Faith In God
$14.00Add to cartFor many decades, militant atheism and religious dogmatism have fed off of each other. Each intellectual argument and rhetorical flourish acts as encouragement and cause for further passion in the other.
Into this mix, author Jonathan Clatworthy offers a different alternative: “to reject neither reason nor God, because believing in God makes sense.”Clatworthy starts by outlining the history of our current problem. The antagonism between belief and science, he says, is the product of a unique history. The either/or dichotomy that emerged from this story is not inevitable and places us at odds with countless other cultures who find a way to hold the two in suspension.
Using the most common reasons for belief, including design, values, morality, and experience, Clatworthy creates a compelling tapestry that commends belief in God in the scientific age.
An essential read for anyone interested in science, spirituality, and faith in the modern world.
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Creation : The Apple Of Gods Eye
$15.99Add to cartHow and why God loves us-God’s good creation This book will talk about the doctrine of creation and invite us to look closely at who God is and who we are in relationship with God. As people of faith, we believe that our gracious God created all there is, but does that also mean that God also created evil? How does creation jive with what scientists are telling us about the origin of the universe? What does the doctrine of creation tell us about what we call “the creation,” that is, the world, its value, purpose, etc? How does understanding the world as God’s creation teach us about our role in creation care? The Bible tells us that God created the heavens and earth, but does that deny the science of the Big Bang? What does believing that God is the Creator say about how God loves, redeems, and sustains us today or does creation say something only about the past? What about the “new creation”? Does this have anything to do with the old creation? Does it mean simply that God is so tired of the rebelliousness of creation that it seems best to erase the present one and start anew? Or is there a connection between the two? What does the doctrine of creation say about us? Aren’t we created in God’s image and aren’t we part of the good creation of a loving God? If so, why is there evil and rebelliousness in us? Where does our ill-will, our desire to do evil, come from? Is there freedom of the will or are all things preordained by God? Just how detailed is God’s plan for us? While no one author can deal with all these questions, this book will help us begin the conversation and gain new understanding of how the doctrine of creation can help us address these very human and timeless questions. Series Description: Belief Matters: How to Love God with Your Mind is a series of books written by widely recognized authors who will help readers think more clearly about their faith and better understand their beliefs, so that they can live more faithfully. These books will also help readers become aware of thoughtful resources and conceptual frames of reference that not only will deepen their faith, but also help them better understand what we say and do in Church. Conversational in tone, these books are reflections on major theological topics and are suitable for a 4-session individual or group study. The intent of the series is to help readers feel as though they are sitting, having coffee as authors share their “take” and show that by thinking more clearly about the
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Scripture And Cosmology
$32.99Add to cartChristians often claim to hold a biblical worldview. But what about a biblical cosmos view? From the beginning of Genesis we encounter a vaulted dome above the earth, a “firmament,” like the ceiling of a planetarium. Elsewhere we read of the earth sitting on pillars. What does the dome of heaven have to do with deep space? Even when the biblical language is clearly poetic, it seems to be funded by a very different understanding of how the cosmos is put together. As Kyle Greenwood shows, the language of the Bible is also that of the ancient Near Eastern palace, temple and hearth. There was no other way of thinking or speaking of earth and sky or the sun, moon and stars. But when the psalmist looked at the heavens, the delicate fingerwork of God, it evoked wonder. Even today it is astronomy and cosmology that invoke our awe and point toward the depths of divine mystery. Greenwood helps us see how the best Christian thinkers have viewed the cosmos in light of Scripture-and grappled with new understandings as science has advanced from Aristotle to Copernicus to Galileo and the galaxies of deep space. It’s a compelling story that both illuminates the text of Scripture and helps us find our own place in the tradition of faithful Christian thinking and interpretation.
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Reasonable Belief : Why God And Faith Make Sense
$35.00Add to cart“Insofar as the essence of this philosophical spirituality is continuous with the essence of Christian spirituality, I am able to specify how . . . we can be utterly confident that it is wholly reasonable and good to affirm, give thanks for, live, and testify to faith in God.”-from the preface
While it’s clear that a lot of people believe in God, whether they should is a matter of loud debate. Since the Enlightenment, and especially in the last 150 years, a consensus has been building in Western philosophy that belief in a transcendent order-and especially in a supreme being-is unreasonable and should be abandoned. The result of this trend has been to delegitimize religious belief, to claim that those who believe do so against scientific evidence and rational thought.
In this confident and sensitive book, William Greenway carefully guides the reader through the developments in Western intellectual life that have led us to assume that belief is irrational. He starts by demonstrating that, along with belief in God, modern definitions of human rationality have also rejected free will and moral agency. He then questions the Cartesian assumption that it is our ability to think that makes us most human and most real. Instead, Greenway explains, it is our capacity to be grasped by the lives and needs of others that forms the heart of who we are. From that vantage point we can see that faith is not a choice we make in spite of evidence to the contrary; it is, rather, wholly rational and in keeping with that which makes us most human. Every person who either has faith or is contemplating faith can be assured that belief in God is both reasonable and good. Greenway embraces both contemporary philosophy and science, inviting readers into a more confident experience of their faith.
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God Adam And You
$20.99Add to cart1. The Bible’s First Word
2. The Case For Adam
3. Two Views Of The Human Person
4. Adam, Lord Of The Garden
5. The Bible And Evolution
6. God’s Design For Gender, Marriage And Sex
7. Differing Views On The Days Of Creation
8. Christ, The Second Adam
9. From God’s Garden To God’s City
10. Original Sin And Modern TheologyAdditional Info
What difference does Adam make? The answer to some influential Christians today is “not much.” Adam, we are told, is a disposable person from biblical lore, who can be safely abandoned to meet the demands of an unaccepting secular culture. Historic Christianity answers differently, however. Adam makes a world of difference when it comes to our understanding of God, mankind, the Bible, and yes, the gospel. Together with Christians of prior generations, we affirm both the necessity and the importance of the historical, biblical Adam to our Christian faith and witness. -
Lost World Of Adam And Eve
$22.99Add to cartThe Lost World of Adam and Eve enters into the debate over the Bible and human origins. Adam and Eve emerge as archetypal but real individuals chosen for roles and functions. The details of the Genesis story take on sharper definition as they are backlit by ancient Near Eastern thinking, and invite our full engagement with the science.
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True Scientists True Faith
$16.99Add to cartMany atheistic campaigners continue to stress that science and faith are incompatible. The distinguished contributors to this enlightening volume refute this. In this revised and updated edition of the best-selling Real Scientists, Real Faith eminent scientists from a variety of disciplines provide their own accounts of how their science and their personal faith intersect. They come from a range of Christian backgrounds, but all are orthodox believers. Contributors include: Joan Centrella, Astronomer; Francis Collins, Human Genome Scientist; Bob White, Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge; Alister McGrath, Professor of Science & Religion, Oxford, and molecular biologist Wilson Poon, Professor of Physics, University of Edinburgh. The book also includes five contributions from distinguished younger scientists.
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Creation Or Evolution (Revised)
$24.99Add to cartFew issues engender so much heat between Christians as the topic of creation. According to Dr. Denis Alexander, “pitting faith against science is both a scandal and a tragedy of certain segments of the contemporary church, just as serious in its consequences as the efforts of the new atheists to pit science against faith.”
In his revised and expanded second edition of Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?, Dr. Alexander provides readers with a well-informed, clear, and judicious discussion and dialogue regarding the oftentimes divisive question found in the book’s title from someone who is passionate about both science and Scripture.
Alexander’s book is written mainly for people who believe, as he does, that the Bible is the inspired Word of God from cover to cover. Creation or Evolution demonstrates and encourages the author’s own belief and hope that the “Book of God’s Word” and the “Book of God’s Works” can be held firmly together in harmony. This substantial new edition updates the science, and extends the author’s discussion of the theological implications.
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World In The Trinity
$39.00Add to cartIntroduction
Part I
1. Language And Reality
2. The “Inside” And The “Outside” Of Everything
3. Philosophical/Scientific Models Of The God-World Relationship In The Current Religion And Science Debate
4. Theological Models Of The God-World Relationship In The Current Religion And Science Debate
5. Panentheism: Hierarchically Ordered Systems Of Existence And ActivityPart II
6. “Incarnation” As Key To The Argument For Panentheism
7. Divine And Human Personhood In A Systems-Oriented Approach To The Trinity
8. Tradition And Traditioning: Church As Both System And Institutional Entity?
9. Miracles And The Problem Of Evil
10. Resurrection And Eternal Life
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Joseph A. Bracken argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an integrated system of interpretation of the Christian faith that consciously accords with the insights and discoveries of contemporary science.In The World in the Trinity, Bracken utilizes the language and conceptual structures of systems theory as a philosophical and scientific grammar to show traditional Christian beliefs in a new light that is accessible and rationally plausible to a contemporary, scientifically influenced society. This account opens new possibilities for rethinking the God-world relationship, the Trinity, incarnation, creation, and eschatology within the context of a broader ecological and cosmological system. In re-describing these articles constitutive of Christian belief, the author is conscious of the vital importance of retaining the inherent power and meaning of these concepts. This volume freshly retrieves pivotal themes and concepts constitutive of the Christian tradition in a conscious rapprochement with current scientific understandings of nature.
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From Nothing : A Theology Of Creation
$42.00Add to cartToo often the doctrine of creation has been made to serve limited or pointless ends, like the well-worn arguments between science and faith over the question of human and cosmic origins. Given this history, some might be tempted to ignore the theology of creation, thinking it has nothing new or substantive to say. They would be wrong.
In this stimulating volume, Ian A. McFarland shows that at the heart of the doctrine of creation lies an essential truth about humanity: we are completely dependent on God. Apart from this realization, little else about us makes sense.
McFarland demonstrates that this radical dependence is a consequence of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, creation from nothing. Taking up the theological consequences of creation-theodicy and Providence-the author provides a detailed and innovative constructive theology of creation. Drawing on the biblical text, classical sources, and contemporary thought, From Nothing proves that a robust theology of creation is a necessary correlate to the Christian confession of redemption in Jesus Christ.
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Not A Chance (Revised)
$19.00Add to cartDespite claiming unbelief in God or any higher power that may have designed or created the world and all that is in it, modern scientists often write and speak of chance as some kind of being or force that can actually cause things to happen. In one breath they push the evolution agenda and in the next they say that creatures were “designed” with specific traits. In this classic book, R. C. Sproul and Keith Mathison call the scientific world to employ logic and clarity in their discourse, to leave the word chance as an abstract concept to describe mathematical possibilities rather than an ontological being that can actually cause change. This expanded edition includes a new chapter dealing with the most recent attempts to defend irrational scientific statements. Two new appendices answer critics and review other literature on scientific discoveries that support belief in a Creator God.
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Case For A Creator Student Edition
$16.99Add to cartHas Science Discovered God? When Lee Strobel was a high school freshman, science convinced him that God didn’t exist. Since then, however, incredible scientific discoveries have not only helped restore Lee’s faith, but have strengthened it. Lee is not alone. More and more scientists, confronted with startling, cutting-edge evidence from many areas of research, no longer believe the universe just ‘happened’ or that life arose by mere chance. Behind a universe of staggering complexity, they are seeing signs of a Master Designer. Are your science textbooks still telling you the same ‘facts’ that Lee’s did years ago? Prepare to be astonished by what some of today’s most respected experts have to say about:
The birth of the universe
Darwinism and the origin of life
The astounding fine-tuning of the cosmos
Amazing molecular machines and DNA researchWeigh the evidence for yourself. Then consider this question: Could it be that the universe looks designed … because it is?
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Eternal Life After Death
$18.49Add to cartThe science of eternal life is related to the electromagnetic energy that our brain produces while we are living on earth. This energy concept is tied to the miracles that that Jesus Christ used to both influence and heal people.
The energy that we create while living on earth is propagated at the speed of light in an ever increasing band without limit. As it is propagated, it defines the characteristics of all the components of the Universe according to the laws of science that relate the interaction of electromagnetic energy with those components.In addition, we share space with the energy of all the others who have lived on Earth and are aware of their entire life history!
To predict what our energy will provide for us ,the latest science on how our Universe was created is presented.This science serves as a base for what we will see as our energy propagates through the Universe and beyond,which is called the Infinitum.
Because eternal life is for such am incomprehensible period of time, cosmic time is introduced, which suggests that trillions of years might seem like a day.
God is defined to be the master of all scence,and in Gods capacity to control the Infinitum,an appreciation for how great God is extends far beyond what our past experience has suggested.
This book follows the propagation of our energy through the Universe and beyond in light years.There are about 70 colorful photos to aid the description of what this will be like. The background science of our Universe is used to illustrate what universes beyond ours might be like.
The Bible is used to confirm the science of the Infinitum and the vision of our electromagnetic energy as it relates to life after death,
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Evolution The Greatest Deception In Modern History
$49.99Add to cartRed Butte Press Inc Title
This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive and compelling review of scientific evidence for Divine Creation-loaded with color photos and illustrations. This book is described as a “tour de force which strongly refutes the notion that ‘science supports’ the evolution/long age view.” It clearly shows that evolutionary doctrine is not based on known scientific laws or the preponderance of scientific evidence but rather, it is built on false assumptions and poor science. Scientific creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, is perfectly consistent with all known scientific laws and evidence-the evidence is overwhelming and supports the reality of a worldwide flood and a young earth. Dr. Roger Gallop is a geologist and marine scientist with over 35 years as a geotechnical and biological consultant. He has degrees in geology, oceanography, and science education. In addition, he was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a Vietnam veteran. He has been happily married for 40 years with one son and grandson.
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Evolution The Greatest Deception In Modern History
$39.99Add to cartRed Butte Press Inc Title
This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive and compelling review of scientific evidence for Divine Creation-loaded with color photos and illustrations. This book is described as a “tour de force which strongly refutes the notion that ‘science supports’ the evolution/long age view.” It clearly shows that evolutionary doctrine is not based on known scientific laws or the preponderance of scientific evidence but rather, it is built on false assumptions and poor science. Scientific creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, is perfectly consistent with all known scientific laws and evidence-the evidence is overwhelming and supports the reality of a worldwide flood and a young earth. Dr. Roger Gallop is a geologist and marine scientist with over 35 years as a geotechnical and biological consultant. He has degrees in geology, oceanography, and science education. In addition, he was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a Vietnam veteran. He has been happily married for 40 years with one son and grandson.
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Death Before The Fall
$29.99Add to cartIntroduction
Part One: On Literalism
Chapter One: The Creation: A Plain Reading
Chapter Two: What’s Eating Biblical Literalists?: Creationism & The Enlightenment Project
Chapter Three: Unwholesome Complexity: Literalism As Scientism’s Pale Mimetic Rival
Chapter Four: Progressive Vs. Degenerating Science: Weighing Incommensurable Paradigms
Chapter Five: Does Your God Need Stage Props?: On The Theological Necessity Of Methodological Atheism
Chapter Six: The Enclave Mentality: Identity Foreclosure & The Fundamentalist Mind
Chapter Seven: The Gnostic Syndrome: When Literalism Becomes A Heresy
Chapter Eight: Four Witnesses Barth, Calvin, Augustine, & Maimonides On The Literal Meaning Of Genesis
Chapter Nine: If Not Foundationalism, What Then?: From Tower-Building To Net-MendingPart Two: On Animal Suffering
Epigraph Two: In Praise Of Self-Deprecation
Chapter Ten: Stasis, Deception, Curse: Three Literalist Dilemmas
Chapter Eleven: A Midrash: C. S. Lewis’s Cosmic Conflict Theodicy Revisited
Chapter Twelve: God Of The Whirlwind: Animal Ferocity In The Book Of Job
Chapter Thirteen: Creation & Kenosis: Evolution And Christ’s Self Emptying Way Of The Cross
Chapter Fourteen: Animal Ethics, Sabbath RestConclusion
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In this eloquent and provocative “open letter” to evangelicals, Ronald Osborn wrestles with the problem of biblical literalism and the ongoing challenge of animal suffering within an evolutionary understanding of the world. Osborn forces us to ask hard questions, not only of the Bible and church tradition, but also and especially of ourselves. -
Entangled Trinity : Quantum Physics And Theology
$39.00Add to cartPart 1. Foundational Concepts
Part 2. Trinitarian Development
Part 3. Science And The TrinityAdditional Info
The Doctrine of the Trinity is an exercise in wonder. It is drawn from the wonder of our own existence and the diverse experiences of the divine encountered by the early Christian community. From the earliest days of Christianity, theologians of the church have drawn upon the most sophisticated language and understandings of their time in an attempt to clarify and express that faith.But how should we attempt to articulate that faith today? In this volume, Ernest Simmons engages precisely that question by asking what the current scientific understanding of the natural world might contribute to our reflection upon the relationship of God and the world in a Triune fashion.
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Case For A Creator
$15.99Add to cartA Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God ‘My road to atheism was paved by science…but, ironically, so was my later journey to God.’—Lee Strobel
During his academic years, Lee Strobel became convinced that God was outmoded, a belief that colored his ensuing career as an award-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune. Science had made the idea of a Creator irrelevant—or so Strobel thought. But today science is pointing in a different direction. In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed. At the same time, Darwinism has faltered in the face of concrete facts and hard reason. Has science discovered God? At the very least, it’s giving faith an immense boost as new findings emerge about the incredible complexity of our universe. Join Strobel as he reexamines the theories that once led him away from God. Through his compelling and highly readable account, you’ll encounter the mind-stretching discoveries from cosmology, cellular biology, DNA research, astronomy, physics, and human consciousness that present astonishing evidence in The Case for a Creator.
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Creation V Evolution What They Wont Tell You In Biology Class
$16.99Add to cartThis book is essential for Christians attending public high school or college-especially before they take biology or earth science classes. Most biology classes in today’s public schools teach evolutionary theory as fact, and only rarely mention creation possibilities outside of this theory, such as Biblical Creation.
About 44% of young adults who abandon their Christian faith started developing their doubts in high school. When these “ex-Christians” are asked “What makes you question the Bible the most,” 40% gave responses that had to do with Biblical Creation, including Noah’s Flood, the age of the Earth, and the Genesis account (“Culture and Church in Crisis,” AnswersinGenesis.com, accessed January 16, 2014).
This book, written by leading Creation Scientists, provides solid answers to these critical questions that will help Christian high school and college students solidify their faith and grow roots to withstand the evolution-based teaching in today’s schools. The topics covered in this book include:
*Can We Trust the Bible?
*Did Noah’s Flood Really Happen?
*The Age of the Earth, Dating Methods, and Evolution
*Do Fossils Show Evolution?
*Do Fossils of Early Man Prove Evolution?
*Natural Selection and Evolution: Do Darwin’s Finches Prove Evolution?
*Whale Evolution
*Are Humans and Chimps Really 99% Similar?
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Evolution Is Creation By An Almighty God
$16.49Add to cartThis story proclaims that every atom of matter in our universe and the genome of life was created and is controlled by an almighty God. If every atom of every speck of matter were not under the perfect control of God there would be nothing, absolutely nothing. But more important to mankind is that God has also created a spiritual image of himself in every person who has ever lived on earth. Our conscious mind, our very soul is a spiritual being created in the Image of the Mind of God. So why is there so much confusion about the purpose of human life? People who believe in a godless evolution conclude that our conscious mind, our very soul, just emanates from our brain, so they have no hope or faith in anything but physical life.
This Story is intended to bring an end to the satanic debate of a godless evolution vs. six day creation, 7,000 years ago. Why, because Satan has designed both sides of this false argument. The results of this deception is that most all educational institutions teach proven scientific evolution as a godless act of nature while the Christian Church continues to teach that creation occurred in six days 7,000 years ago. Both sides of this satanic argument are false. Because the truth is; “Evolution Is Creation”. Scientists are only describing the environmental processes that are designed and spirit driven by the invisible God of all creation.
The creator God is also a God of love, as we share His love; we build eternal relationships with Him and with others. The author describes what the Holy Spirit has revealed to him over the past 40 years, as he worked in many parts of this world as a wildlife biologist, missionary and in disaster relief. As a committed follower of Jesus Christ, he has lived all of his adult life believing in The God of all creation. He also believes the spirit of God has caused the Holy Bible to be translated accurately from the original languages, but the interpretation of the creation story must be based on the accumulation of scientific knowledge of how God created the universe and biological life.
The objective of this story is to reach out to people who know without a doubt that evolution is true, to also help them understand and believe that only an Eternal Almighty Spiritual God could have created the atom of all matter and the genome of biological life. God is Spirit and Truth, and His Word, “The Holy Bible”, is a true reflection of this Eternal Almighty God.
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Scripture And Cosmos Reconciled
$16.49Add to cart1. In The Beginning Was The Word
2. In The Beginning God Created
3. The Functions Of Time, Weather And Food
4. Functionaries Installed
5. Let Us Make Human Beings In Our Image
6. God Blessed The Seventh Day As Holy
7. God, Adam & Eve In Relationship
8. Adam And Eve Sin
9. Some Perspectives
10. Scripture And Cosmos Reconciled
Miscellaneous
Bibliography
EndnotesAdditional Info
This book shows that Scripture can stand firm alongside scientific knowledge. Someday most Christians will accept many of the conclusions that I have written about. This book contributes to a paradigm shift. It will have the same kind of acceptance that the heliocentric view of earth rather than the geocentric view now has. An informed and faithful view of scripture and a scientific view of the cosmos can be reconciled. God’s revealed word should not be thrown out with the casting of the naturalistic die of science that shows the Bible to be a human book. Nor should the compelling evidence of science be ignored by turning the Bible into a supernatural book of magic. God’s hidden heart is communicated in Scripture, and God’s hidden hand is communicated in the cosmos, but both are known through a faith experience and relationship with God. This is what I am willing to defend. -
Case For A Creator Study Guide Revised Edition
$10.99Add to cart‘My road to atheism was paved by science… but, ironically, so was my later journey to God.’ Former atheist Lee Strobel has discovered that science, far from being the enemy of faith, now provides a solid foundation for belief in God. New scientific discoveries point to the incredible complexity of our universe, a complexity best explained by the existence of a Creator. This revised six-session video study invites participants to encounter this evidence delivered in a compelling conversational style. Join Strobel in reexamining the theories that once led him away from God. Pastors, small group leaders, and individuals seeking resources that answer tough questions about the existence of God will find compelling answers in the Case for a Creator study. Designed for use with the Case for a Creator Revised: A DVD Study. The six sessions include: Science and God Doubts about Darwinism The Evidence of Cosmology The Fine Tuning of the Universe The Evidence of Biochemistry The DNA and the Origin of Life
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Case For Christ Study Guide Revised Edition (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIs there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? Skeptics dismiss the Jesus of the Gospels by claiming there is no evidence in the case for Christ. Lee Strobel disagrees. The former legal journalist and one-time atheist knows how to ask tough questions. His own search for truth about Jesus led him to faith in Christ. Now Strobel invites you and your group to investigate the truth about Jesus Christ leading to the facts that guided Strobel from atheism to faith in Christ. In this revised six-session video study, participants will journey along with Strobel on a quest for the truth about Jesus. Rejecting easy answers, you will sift through fascinating historical evidence as you weigh compelling expert testimony. In the end, groups may very well see Jesus in a new way—and even, like Strobel, find their life transformed. Pastors, small group leaders, and individuals will find compelling answers for their questions about Jesus in this revised study guide, to be used in coordination with The Case for Christ Revised: A DVD Study (sold separately).
The six sessions include:
The Investigation of a Lifetime
Eyewitness Evidence
Evidence Outside the Bible
Analyzing Jesus
Evidence for the Resurrection
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Cosmic Commons : Spirit Science And Space
$51.00Add to cartCosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact. It uses a thought experiment to consider the ecological-economic-ethical-ecclesial impacts of Contact, analyzing incidents around the world described by credible witnesses (two of whom are interviewed for the book), including Roswell and the Hudson River Valley. It discusses government and academic efforts to use ridicule and coercion to suppress Contact investigations, supports a scientific method to research ETI reports in a field that should excite scientists, and calls on academics to publicly disclose their Contact experiences. It traces Earth ecological and economic injustices to the European Enlightenment and the Discovery Doctrine by which European nations rationalized invasion of distant continents, genocide, and seizure of the territories and natural goods of native peoples. It advocates a change in humans’ Earth conduct to avoid replicating in space the policies and practices that wrought economic injustice and ecological devastation on Earth, provides an innovative cosmosociological praxis ethics theory and practice toward that end, and develops a Cosmic Charter, based on UN documents, to guide humankind in space and in ETI encounters. Permeated by a profound sense of the sacred, Cosmic Commons explores a positive relationship between religion and science as humankind ventures into space.
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Process And Providence
$42.99Add to cartCharles Hodge, James McCosh, B. B. Warfield — these leading professors at Princeton College and Seminary in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries are famous for their orthodox Protestant positions against the doctrine of evolution. Yet, says Bradley Gundlach, the old Princetonians did not reject evolution outright. In this book, aptly titled Process and Providence, Gundlach explores their surprisingly positive embrace of developmental views not only of the cosmos but also of Scripture and the history of doctrine, all in the context of their defense of the Christian faith.
Beginning with the first American review of the pre-Darwinian evolutionary book, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, and culminating in the Scopes Trial and the forced reorganization of Princeton Seminary in 1929, Gundlach’s Process and Providence reliably portrays the preeminent conservative Protestants in America as they defined, contested, and answered — often with remarkably nuanced distinctions — the many facets of the evolution question.
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Anatomy Of The Heavens
$18.99Add to cartConstellations: No one disputes their celestial glory -dazzling, dramatic, and perhaps somehow meaningful. But how? What is it about the 12 major constellations in our night sky that has captivated almost everyone throughout history from ancient stargazers searching the skies with naked eyes to modern astronomers scanning the stars through incredibly powerful telescopes. There are those who claim the stars give each of us personal information based on the date of our birth. But we know better, or course. Are the positioning of the stars entirely random? If so, why do they tell such a powerful story? Is anything in God’s universe truly random? Is He not a God of order, with an immense desire to teach us and reach us through every possible aspect of His creation? Study the heavens with a biblical perspective and learn the real message God has written in the stars.
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Creator God Evolving World
$24.00Add to cart1. God, Religion, And Science
2. Evolving World: Regularity And Probability
3. Creator God
4. Evolving World: Purpose And Meaning
5. Human Freedom And God’s Providence
6. Implications For Human Living: Moral Agency And Emergent ProbabilityAdditional Info
Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science. A truly intelligent and accessible defense of the compatibility of classical theism with the evolutionary worldview, this volume is an important and provocative contribution to the debate. Creator God, Evolving World clarifies a number of confused assumptions in an effort to redeem chance as an intelligible force interacting with stable patterns in nature.By clarifying terms often used imprecisely in both scientific and theological discourse, the authors make the case that the role of chance in evolution neither mitigates God’s radical otherness from creation nor challenges the efficacy of God’s providence in the world. Finally, this view of God and the evolving world yields implications for our understanding of human action. Moral agency, even God’s work of redemption, unfolds according to an ethic of risk rather than by the quick fix of determinative control.
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Mapping The Origins Debate
$24.99Add to cartWhat are the main positions in the debate over creation and evolution? Why do they disagree? Can the debates about origins and evolution ever be resolved? Gerald Rau offers a fair-minded overview of the six predominant models used to explain the origins of the universe, of life, of species and of humans. He aims to show the contours of current debates both among Christians and between Christians and non-theists. He also enables us to evaluate and think more clearly about the various arguments for each position. He accomplishes this by not only describing the options on origins, but by exploring the philosophical assumptions behind each and how evidence is counted corresponding with each model. While surveying the various models, Rau does not avoid in depth consideration of the complexities involved in what makes up a given model and how they differ. Rau investigates the nature of science and the differing philosophies of science operating in the debates. He goes on to show the importance of philosophical assumptions involved in each model and the key role among Christians of the assumed proper hermeneutic for interpreting Scripture. Rau cogently identifies the role those assumptions play in determining what counts as significant evidence in the current debates. He presents in detail how the scientific evidence is interpreted by each model to substantiate its conclusions. He also notes the limits of a scientifically gained knowledge. In the end, he shows not just what the differences are among the options but why they disagree and why we shouldnt expect any resolution as long as the philosophical assumptions remain fixed. Any reader will not only become better informed about the current debates on origins but will become better thinkers about the issues at stake.
