Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Recommended resource on science and Christian belief

I continue to be impressed by the journal Science and Christian Belief. Besides major articles each issue contains a large number of book reviews. It really helps deciding what books may be worth reading and getting succinct summaries of what is out there.

The latest issue has a positive review by Graeme Finlay of the book I love Jesus and I accept evolution by Denis Lamoureux (his website at the University of Alberta is also worth looking at).

The only thing I find disappointing about the journal is that like most journals, conferences, books, blogs, ... on science and Christianity it spends too much time talking about evolution...

3 comments:

  1. Do you know Zygon? I don't think I've ever seen an article on evolution in it. (Don't quote me on that, though!)

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  2. I think the obsession with evolution may be that it touches people more directly than cosmology does. I mean, if someone comes out with an inflammatory statement like 'YOU are a product of chance' or 'I'll believe evolution when I see a monkey give birth to a human', I think people will give it more focus than when people talk about multiple bubble universes etc.

    I do agree with Ross, I just think we should not be surprised.

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  3. The interest in evolution, to the exclusion of other scientific areas of study, is a particularly American phenomenon... I saw John Polkinghorne on a panel once, and he mentioned this fact - in the UK, he said, people usually ask about physics (his specialty).

    Zygon has a more international constituency, and isn't as focused on Christian theology, so the subject matter tends to be more broad.

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