Articles
Guest Editorial
Brian Heap
Pages: 2-4
The Boyle Lecture 2005: Darwin’s Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation
Simon Conway Morris
Pages: 5-22
Nothing in Biology makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
R J Berry
Pages: 23-29
Abstract
In his Boyle Lecture, Conway Morris provides an important counter to those who condemn Darwinian evolution as meaningless in direction and driven by random processes. In doing so, he answers the indictments of critics such as Jacques Monod and Stephen Jay Gould, and suggests an important bridge towards understanding evolution as the mechanism used by God in creation.
Rich Reality: a response to the Boyle Lecture by Simon Conway Morris
John Polkinghorne
Pages: 31-34
Navigating the Deep Structure of Biological Hyperspace: Divine Providence in an Otherwise Lonely Universe
Michael S. Northcott
Pages: 35-40
A response to the commentaries of R.J. (Sam) Berry, John Polkinghorne and Michael Northcott
Simon Conway Morris
Pages: 41-48
Design in Nature
Oliver R. Barclay
Pages: 49-61
Abstract
An explicitly biblical view of design in nature is discussed according to the themes of creation and providence, divine wisdom, awe, and the role of creation in declaring the glory of God. These biblical themes are contrasted with modern design arguments that draw on contemporary science, with particular reference to ‘intelligent design’.
Reconsidering a ‘Cosmic Fall’
John J. Bimson
Pages: 63-81
Abstract
The doctrine of the cosmic fall teaches that all or part of creation was directly affected by the disobedience of Adam and Eve. The idea has been part of Christian thought since the second century, and has been used to explain a whole range of things that seem difficult to reconcile with the purposes of a loving God (popularly summed up as ‘natural evil’). The doctrine is in conflict with a world-view informed by modern science, yet it remains deeply embedded in much evangelical thinking and is widely assumed to have a strong biblical basis. This paper questions the usual interpretation of relevant biblical texts, and suggests that the nature poetry of the Old Testament points in a different direction. Finally the paper looks at recent alternative responses to natural evil.
Book reviews
Darwin’s Religious Odyssey
William E. Phipps, (D. Burbridge)
Pages: 83-84
Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust
Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, Azizan Baharuddin (eds.), (S. Lucas)
Pages: 84-85
A Christian Response to the New Genetics: Religious, Ethical and Social Issues
D. H. Smith & C. B. Cohen (eds.), (C. Berry)
Pages: 85-86
Adam, Eve and the Genome
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite (ed.), (J. Bryant)
Pages: 86-88
The Design Revolution: answering the toughest questions about Intelligent Design
William A. Dembski, (P. Wraight)
Pages: 88-89
Life in Our Hands: A Christian Perspective on Genetics and Cloning
John Bryant and John Searle, (G. Jones)
Pages: 89-90
In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World
P. Clayton & A. Peacocke (eds.), (S. Bishop)
Pages: 91-92
God and the Nature of Time
Garrett J. DeWeese, (L. Osborn)
Pages: 92-93
The Divine Lawmaker : Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God
John Foster, (L. Jaeger)
Pages: 93-94
Evolving Creation: God’s Books: Genetics & Genesis
Graeme Finlay, (E. Lucas)
Pages: 94-95
Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence?
Henry F. Schaefer III, (J. Bausor)
Pages: 95-96
Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA
W. A. Dembski and M. Ruse (eds.), (S. Bishop)
Pages: 96-98
Science and Theology since Copernicus: the search for understanding
Peter Barrett, (A. Halestrap)
Pages: 98-99
Beyond Belief: Science, faith and ethical challenges
D. Alexander and R. S. White, (A. Halestrap)
Pages: 98-99
Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith
David G. Myers and Malcolm A. Jeeves, (A. Morinan)
Pages: 99-101
Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science
Alan G. Padgett, (L. Osborn
Pages: 101-102
Theology of Physics
George Richter, (P. Wraight)
Pages: 102-103
Creation out of Nothing: a Biblical, Philosophical and Scientific Exploration
Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, (S. Bishop)
Pages: 103-104
The Earth Story in the New Testament
N. C. Habel and V. Balabanski (eds.), (R. Elsdon)
Pages: 104-106
Sketches towards a theology of Science
W. Poon (ed), (B. McInnes)
Pages: 107-107
The Science of God
Alister E. McGrath, (A. Ison)
Pages: 108-109
Agents under Fire: materialism and the rationality of science
Angus Menuge, (D. Watts)
Pages: 109-110
God, the Multiverse, and Everything
Rodney D. Holder, (M. McCartney)
Pages: 111-112