Intelligent faith
Subtitle: a celebration of 150 years of Darwinian evolution
By: editors, John MacDonald Smith, John Quenby
Publisher: O Books; Distribution in USA and Canada, NBN
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Winchester, UK; Washington, USA; [Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781846942297
Subjects: Evolution; Christianity; Creation; Creationism; Intelligent design (Teleology); Évolution; Aspect religieux; Christianisme; Création; Créationnisme; Dessein intelligent; Creating (artistic activity); Creationism (religious ideology)
Description: "The year 2009 is the Anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th publication of his book on The Origin of Species. The ideas which Darwin stimulated lie at the heart of our understanding of the natural world. They offer and elegant scientific account which elicits a positive response from and gives much to theology. Yet in recent years the Intelligent Design movement amongst creationists in the United States in opposition, not only to Darwinism, but also and consistently, to contemporary Western values and to mainstream liberal theology. It is now infiltrating the United Kingdom. In this book a group of scientists and theologians unite to honour Charles Darwin, expressing their common conviction that Darwinian evolution marks a very great advance in human understanding of the world and that Intelligent Design is an unproductive dead end. Intelligent Faith will be of interest not only to thinking people with an interest in theology and science but also to sixth formers, school discussion groups and university societies."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Rowan Williams -- Introduction / -- John MacDonald Smith; title: Evolution: intelligent and designed?  -- Denis R. Alexander; title: Lives of meaning: organismal intelligence and the origin of design in nature  -- R.I. Vane-Wright; title: Intelligent design and the origin of life  -- Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate; title: Darwin's compass: how evolution discovers the song of creation  -- Simon Conway Morris; title: Darwin's legacy: a regularly misunderstood and misinterpreted triumph  -- R.J. Berry; title: Cosmology and faith  -- Rodney D. Davies; title: Cosmic evolution  -- John Quenby; title: Understanding God's world: models in theology and science  -- John MacDonald Smith; title: Evolution and the problems of providence  -- Ruth Page; title: Biblical and doctrinal understanding of creation  -- Paul Badham; title: Genesis narratives  -- Anthony Phillips; title: Genesis 1 and the presuppositions of science  -- Jonathan Clatworthy; title: Fundamentalism in a multicultural society  -- Harriet Harris; title: Why evil, suffering and death?  -- Russell Stannard; title: Climate change, earth history and the Christian hope  -- I.N. James; title: Origins and stories: intelligent faith  -- John Strain; title: Evolution and Christian faith in the 19th century -- Richard Harries-- Postscript /-- John Quenby.