- Paperback: 341 pages
- Publisher: O Books; 1 edition (30 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846942292
- ISBN-13: 978-1846942297
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 16.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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It is specially important and welcome that the ideas discussed in this book should be aired during the Darwin anniversary year. --Professor Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Lord Rees of Ludlow
This timely collection of Essays will give encouragement to all those who profess a rational faith and who want to embrace Darwin as an ally in the quest for truth and meaning. --he Right Reverend Dr John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln and President of the Modern Churchpeoples' union.
One of the more depressing features of the current relationship between science and religion is the assumption, shared by many scientists and religious believers, that Darwinism undermines religious faith. This is a travesty of the truth about both, and I warmly welcome this attempt to set the record straight. --The Most Reverend Lord Habgood, retired Archbishop of York
This timely collection of Essays will give encouragement to all those who profess a rational faith and who want to embrace Darwin as an ally in the quest for truth and meaning. --he Right Reverend Dr John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln and President of the Modern Churchpeoples' union.
One of the more depressing features of the current relationship between science and religion is the assumption, shared by many scientists and religious believers, that Darwinism undermines religious faith. This is a travesty of the truth about both, and I warmly welcome this attempt to set the record straight. --The Most Reverend Lord Habgood, retired Archbishop of York
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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 and 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 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. In this book a group of scientists and theologians unite to honour Charles Darwin, expressing their common conviction that Darwinian evolution marks a very great advance in human understanding of the world and that Intelligent Design is an unproductive dead end. "Intelligent Faith" will be of interest not only to thinking people with an interest in theology and science but also to sixth formers, school discussion groups and university societies. Contributors include The Most Rev Rowan Williams, Prof Russell Stannard and Rev Dr Harriet Harris.
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The theological compatibility of the theory of evolution,
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This review is from: Intelligent Faith: A Celebration of Darwinian Evolution (Paperback)
John Quenby and John MacDonald Smith (editors), Intelligent faith: A celebration of 150 years of Darwinian evolution, O Books, 2009, 342 ff. ISBN 9781846942297The theological compatibility of the theory of evolution By Howard Jones John Quenby is Emeritus Professor at Imperial College, London. His main scientific interest has been in astrophysics but he has consequently developed an interest in theology, and particularly in process theology as the basis of interpreting the relation between the natural world and the divine. John MacDonald Smith is a mathematician and physicist who, earlier in his career, worked at Aldermaston nuclear energy complex in the UK but who has now become ordained as a priest in the Church of England and has campaigned against nuclear arms. He has written another book in the science and religion area called `On Doing Without God'. The present book, published exactly 150 years after Darwin's `Origin of Species' and edited by Quenby and Smith, is an attempt to show that so-called Intelligent Design is an `unproductive dead end' that is both theologically and scientifically incoherent. The sixteen or so contributors to this book point out that Darwin and Wallace's theory not only accounts for a mass of biological and palaeontological evidence but is also not inconsistent with the role of a divine spiritual energy in the creation and sustaining of the universe. The contributors include both scientists and theologians. A recent survey in America stated that over one-third of Americans wanted creationism taught in schools in place of Darwinism says Smith in his Introduction and, depending on which state you live in, you may well be persecuted for teaching evolution or for teaching creationism. Although this book is about evolution, both biological and cosmic, it is imbued with belief in the validity of the Bible and, in particular, of the principles of Christianity. Each chapter concludes with a wealth of references that are cited in the text. Although there is no Index, this perhaps is unnecessary since each chapter deals with a different topic on the main theme. This is an important book which, although multi-authored, is eminently readable. It explores evolution thoroughly from many different angles, including Intelligent Design. My principal criticism is that the book is firmly focussed on Christianity and the Bible. The arguments might be more convincing to more people if the analysis could have been presented with regard to any theistic world-view. Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, U.K.; and The World as Spirit published by Fairhill Publishing, Whitland, West Wales, 2011. Evolution as a Religion by Mary Midgley Darwin and God by Nick Spencer The Watch on the Heath: Science and Religion before Darwin by Keith Thomson
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Intelligent Faith,
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Top scientists show that belief in God is fully compatible with contemporary science, especially evolution. Though this book is sometimes heavy going it is worth it as a rebuttal of the stereotype that science and religion don't mix.
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Let's all Embrace Darwinism,
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This review is from: Intelligent Faith: A Celebration of Darwinian Evolution (Paperback)
A collection of essays by scientists, who are attempting to come to terms with the fact that their religious upbringing was misconceived, and theologians who are having to accept the reality that, with so called "intelligent design" now proven to be nothing more than ridiculous nonsense, if you can't beat 'em, let's be seen to join 'em instead; it might just wash.
It won't.
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