Origins
Subtitle: God, evolution, and the question of the cosmos
By: Philip A. Rolnick
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Waco, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781602583689
Subjects: Origin; Evolution; Creation; Christianity; Life; Cosmology
Description: Rather than seeing science and religion as oppositional, in Origins: God, Evolution, and the Question of the Cosmos Philip Rolnick demonstrates the remarkable compatibility of contemporary science and traditional Christian theology.

Rolnick then lets the vastly expanded time and macroscopic beauty of big bang cosmology cast new and benign light on both biology and theology. The discovery of a big bang beginning, fine-tuning, and a 3.45 billion year evolutionary process brings new ways to think about the creativity of creation. From the tiny to the tremendous, there is an intelligent generosity built into the features of the cosmos and its living creatures, a spectrum of interconnected phenomena that seems tinged with grace. By recognizing the gifts of creation that have been scientifically uncovered, Origins presents a new way to understand this universe of grace and reason. - Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introduction. A universe of grace and reason; title: Part II. Evolution: from challenge to theological advantage. Four challenges of evolution; title: Evolution and divine design; title: Natural selection and a God of love; title: Struggle, pain, and death and the goodness of creation; title: Common ancestry and human uniqueness; title: Part III. Cosmology and creation. The origin and development of an inhabitable universe; title: A universe finely tuned for life; title: Logos: the divine source of reason; title: Part IV. Creation's gifts and human response. The given and the earned; title: The old and the new.