Creationism and the Conflict Over Evolution (Cascade Companions)

Description: How do our current notions of the workings of the universe fit with our deepest convictions about its meaning and value? From religion we grasp the world as created given gift. From science we apprehend it as evolving in process changing. How do we bring these apprehensions together? Or can we? Is our impulse to find the two complementary: creation and evolution? Or is it to find them contradictory: creation or evolution? The way in which we answer these questions carries personal and intellectual consequences. It will constitute the first piece in a worldview within which we order our religious beliefs and scientific judgments. --from the Preface Endorsements: The scientific failures of Intelligent Design and other forms of creationism have been detailed in dozens of books scores of articles and in a handful of spectacular court cases. What Tatha Wiley adds to this mix is a provocative and highly readable analysis of the theological failings of todays creationist movement. It will surprise those who assume that creationism is rooted in Christian tradition and it will challenge those who believe that the biblical narrative is hopelessly at odds with modern science. --Kenneth R. Miller Professor of Biology Brown University author of Finding Darwins God and Only a Theory About the Contributor(s): Tatha Wiley is the author of Original Sin: Origins Developments Contemporary Meaning and Paul and the Gentile Women: Reframing Galatians. She is editor of Thinking of Christ: Proclamation Explanation Meaning and the series Engaging Theology: Catholic Perspectives. She teaches theology at the University of St. Thomas and the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul Minnesota.