| Science and Evolution: Developing a Christian Worldview of Science and Evolution | 
enlarge | Authors: Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 583497
Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 224 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0842355839 Dewey Decimal Number: 231.7652 EAN: 9780842355834 ASIN: 0842355839
Publication Date: October 4, 2001 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description Each of these three books (Developing a Christian Worldview of Science and Evolution, Developing a Christian Worldview of the Problem of Evil, and Developing a Christian Worldview of the Christian in Today's Culture) is drawn from Colson's highly successful How Now Shall We Live? Shorter in length and accessible to readers, the Developing a Christian Worldview series is ideal for small-group study and classroom use. Each chapter begins with pre-reading questions, and each study session is made up of newly written discussion questions, role-playing activities, and challenges to implement key insights. All are designed to help readers grasp Colson's arguments and learn how to use the points effectively with non-Christians.
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a disappointment January 13, 2002 6 out of 19 found this review helpful
As a Christian, I found Colson's and Pearcey's magnum opun well worth reading, but this book (chapter in larger book) simply sides with the Intelligent Design side in the debate. I am sure the authors believe this is the Christian perspective, but I had hoped for insight into reconciling science and faith.
What A Disappointment! December 20, 2001 22 out of 47 found this review helpful
What is badly needed is a case for a reasoned merger of Christian truth with scientific evolutionary theory. This has been eloquently done for Christian environmentalism, and I was looking forward to reading a thoughtful intellectual analysis of evolutionary theory and science from a Christian evangelical's perspective. What a disappointment! Colson and Pearcey had the opportunity to make a significant contribution, but chose instead to construct the usual tired strawman of equating science with naturalism and Christianity with allegiance to intelligent design. Neither naturalism nor intelligent design are science, and thus both are easily debunked from a scientific perspective.Furthermore, Colson and Pearcey cannot even identify cogent new arguments for intelligent design. Instead they rely on naive and easily refuted arguments, such as the "irreducible complexity" of the eye (nonsense, there are numerous examples of intermediate stages of light recognition and processing) or that a fish evolving a lung would drown (we have air-breathing fish, and many amphibians change from a gill-breathing to a lung-breathing state). In summary, if you want another stock argument for intelligent design, or if you like to read arguments that can easily be picked to pieces, get this book. Otherwise, don't bother.
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