Moreland / Meyer / Shaw Theistic Evolution

A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4335-5289-2
Verlag: Crossway
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 1008 Seiten

Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used-albeit in an undetectable way-evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two dozen highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America, this volume contests this proposal, documenting evidential, logical, and theological problems with theistic evolution-making it the most comprehensive critique of theistic evolution yet produced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreland, J. P.

Meyer, Stephen C.

Shaw, Christopher

Gauger, Ann K.

Grudem, Wayne

Leseproben

Contributors

Gregg R. Allison (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is professor of Christian theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine; Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church; Roman Catholic Theology and Practice: An Evangelical Assessment; The Baker Compact Dictionary of Theological Terms; The Unfinished Reformation (with Chris Castaldo); and other titles. Allison is secretary of the Evangelical Theological Society and is a book review editor for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Douglas D. Axe is the director of Biologic Institute, a founding editor of BIO-Complexity, and the author of Undeniable—How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed. After a Caltech PhD, he held research positions at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre. His work and ideas have been featured in the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature. In Undeniable he brings the main conclusions of his work to a general audience by showing that our intuitive sense that accidental causes cannot have invented life is correct.

Günter Bechly is a German paleontologist and senior research scientist at Biologic Institute. His research focuses on the fossil history of insects, discontinuities in the history of life, and the waiting time problem. He earned his PhD, summa cum laude, in paleontology from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany), where he studied the evolution of dragonflies and their wings. He worked from 1999–2016 as curator for amber and fossil insects at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, as successor of Dieter Schlee and Willi Hennig. He has described more than 160 new fossil taxa, including three new insect orders, and published more than 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book with Cambridge University Press. His research has received broad international media coverage, in particular his discoveries of Coxoplectoptera and the predatory roach Manipulator.

C. John Collins is professor of Old Testament at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. With degrees from MIT (SB, SM) and the University of Liverpool (PhD), he has been a research engineer, a church planter, and a seminary teacher. He was Old Testament chairman for the English Standard Version of the Bible, and is author of Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? and Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?: Who They Were and Why You Should Care, and is currently writing commentaries on Numbers, Psalms, and Isaiah. He married Diane in 1979, and they have two grown children.

John D. Currid (PhD, University of Chicago) is the Carl McMurray Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the author of several books and Old Testament commentaries and has extensive archaeological field experience from projects throughout Israel and Tunisia.

Garrett J. DeWeese is professor at large, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He holds a BS degree from the United States Air Force Academy, a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a PhD from the University of Colorado–Boulder. He has taught courses on the intersection of science, theology, and philosophy for more than twenty years.

Stephen Dilley is an associate professor of philosophy at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He is editor of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism (Lexington, 2013) and coeditor of Human Dignity in Bioethics (Routledge, 2012). Dilley has published essays in British Journal for the History of Science, The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and elsewhere. He enjoys history and philosophy of biology, political philosophy, and bowhunting.

Winston Ewert (PhD, Baylor University) is an intelligent design researcher and software engineer. He has published in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Bio-Complexity, and Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. He is a senior researcher at both the Evolutionary Informatics Lab and the Biologic Institute. He is also a contributor at Evolution News and Views. When not busy defending intelligent design or writing software, he occupies his time maintaining his status as his nieces’ and nephew’s favorite uncle.

Ann K. Gauger is director of science communication at the Discovery Institute, and senior research scientist at Biologic Institute in Seattle. She received her PhD from the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Her research at Biologic Institute has been on both protein evolution and human origins. As director of science communication, she communicates evidence for intelligent design to the wider public. Her scientific work has been published in Nature, Development, Journal of Biological Chemistry, BIO-Complexity, among others, and she coauthored the book Science and Human Origins.

Wayne Grudem is research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary. He received a BA (Harvard), an MDiv and a DD (Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia), and a PhD in New Testament (University of Cambridge). He has published over twenty books including Systematic Theology, was a translator for the ESV Bible, and was the general editor for the ESV Study Bible. He is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He and Margaret have been married since 1969 and have three adult sons.

Ola Hössjer received a PhD in mathematical statistics from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1991. Appointed a professor of mathematical statistics at Lund University in 2000, he has held the same position at Stockholm University since 2002. His research focuses on developing statistical theory and probability theory for various applications, in particular population genetics, epidemiology, and insurance mathematics. He has authored around eighty peer-reviewed articles and has supervised thirteen PhD students. His theoretical research is mostly in robust and nonparametric statistics, whereas the applied research includes methods of gene localization (linkage and association analysis), and the study of short-term microevolutionary dynamics of populations. In 2009 he was awarded the Gustafsson Prize in Mathematics.

Matti Leisola holds a degree as doctor of science in technology (1979) from Helsinki University of Technology; he received his habilitation in 1988 from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in biotechnology. He was awarded the Latsis Prize of the ETH Zurich in 1987. He is currently professor emeritus of bioprocess engineering at Aalto University. Leisola’s scientific expertise is in microbial and enzyme technology. Leisola was the research director at Cultor Ltd, an international food and biotech company, during 1991–1997. Leisola has authored and coauthored over 140 scientific peer-reviewed articles which have been cited over 5,000 times.

Casey Luskin is a PhD student in science and an attorney. He earned his MS in earth sciences from the University of California, San Diego, and a law degree from the University of San Diego. Luskin previously worked as research coordinator at Discovery Institute, helping scientists and educators investigate intelligent design. He has contributed to multiple books, including Science and Human Origins, Traipsing into Evolution, Intelligent Design 101, God and Evolution, More than Myth, and Discovering Intelligent Design. Luskin is cofounder of the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center (www.ideacenter.org), a non-profit helping students start “IDEA Clubs” on campuses.

Stephen C. Meyer received his PhD in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and philosophy professor at Whitworth University, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. He has authored the New York Times best-seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013) as well as Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009) which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009.

J. P. Moreland is distinguished professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he has taught for twenty-six years. He has authored, edited, or contributed papers to ninety-five books, including Does God Exist? (Prometheus), Universals (McGill-Queen’s), Consciousness and the Existence of God (Routledge),...