Collins presents his personal testimony as well as his understanding of topics concerning science and religion. He argues for a synergy between the two and lays out his views on theistic evolution or “Biologos.” Many of his beliefs may not sit well with conservative evangelicals, but his discussion of modern science as it relates to matters of faith is worth reading. This book is neither rigorously intellectual nor particularly theologically insightful, but it does provide a perspective that merits attention. For more work in a similar vein, see http://www.biologos.org/.
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Review: The Language of God by Francis Collins
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Review: Faith, Form, and Time by Kurt Wise
Wise, Kurt P. (2002). Faith, Form, and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms about Creation and the Age of the Universe. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Kurt Wise lives in a binary world: either you’re a Bible-Believing Young Earth Creationist who accepts the Truth or else you’re an Evil Atheist Evolutionist who has no rational basis for any belief whatsoever. But reality, as expressed in the Bible and in nature, is considerably more complex than such a simplistic dichotomy. In Faith, Form, and Time, Wise seeks to provide a comprehensive explanation of the Young Earth Creationist position, but in doing so he fails to acknowledge, let alone explore, other viable interpretations of the Genesis creation account such as the many varieties of concordist and framework views that are widely held by knowledgeable Christians. For Wise, such views don’t really matter because his presuppositions, grounded in fideistic faith, leave no room for exploring alternative ideas or for critically examining one’s own beliefs. (more…)