Intelligent Faith

by Smith, John MacDonald

• ISBN13: 9781846942297
• ISBN10: 1846942292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

The year 2009 is the Anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th publication of his book on The Origin of Species. The ideas which Darwin stimulated lie at the heart of our understanding of the natural world. They offer an elegant scientific account which elicits a positive response from and gives much to theology. Yet in recent years the Intelligent Design movement amongst creationists in the United States is in opposition, not only to Darwinism, but also and consistently, to contemporary Western values and to mainstream liberal theology. It is now infiltrating the United Kingdom.

Author Biography

John Quenby is Professor Emeritus at Imperial College London with an interest in Process Theology. John MacDonald Smith is the former Aldermaston scientist and a retired Parish Priest.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Evolution, Intelligent and Designed	p. 7
Lives of Meaning: Organismal Intelligence and the Origin of Design in Nature	p. 23
Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life	p. 49
Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation	p. 70
Darwin's Legacy: A Regularly Misunderstood and Misinterpreted Triumph	p. 97
Cosmology and Faith	p. 121
Cosmic Evolution	p. 136
Understanding God's World: Models in Theology and Science	p. 155
Evolution and the Problems of Providence	p. 170
Biblical and Doctrinal Understanding of Creadon	p. 181
The Genesis Narratives	p. 196
Genesis 1 and the Presuppositions of Science	p. 213
Fundamentalism in a Multicultural Society	p. 235
Why Evil, Suffering and Death	p. 256
Climate Change, Earth History and the Christian Hope	p. 270
Origins and Stories	p. 291
Evolution and Christian Faith in the Nineteenth Century	p. 311
Postscript	p. 325
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