Denis Lamoureux has a new book out: Evolution: Scripture and Nature Say Yes! In this engaging and readable book he builds on his strong background in biology and theology to explore the question of evolutionary creation. The first chapter, Trapped in “Either/Or” Thinking sets the stage. Denis opens with the story of a student in [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 10 (RJS)
Jan 11, 2011 @ 5:02 by 61 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. In Chapter 8 Dr. Lamoureux’s describes a Christian approach to human evolution proposing a way to reconcile scripture, Christian faith and doctrine, and what is [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 9 (RJS)
Jan 4, 2011 @ 5:07 by 34 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. Chapter 7 provides Dr. Lamoureux’s vision of the means to move beyond conflict and concordance. His approach hinges on the Message Incident Principle separating the [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 8 (RJS)
Dec 30, 2010 @ 5:07 by 19 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. Chapter 6 of the book works through Genesis 1-11 considering the nature of the texts, the genre of the various stories told, the logical inconsistencies [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 7 (RJS)
Dec 28, 2010 @ 5:12 by 22 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. Chapter 5 of this book looks at The Bible and Science: Beyond Conflict and Concordism. Earlier this month we discussed the presence of ancient science [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 6 (RJS)
Dec 16, 2010 @ 5:07 by 31 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. Chapter 4 of this book describes the role that ancient science plays in the text of scripture. The post on Tuesday looked at the general [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 5 (RJS)
Dec 14, 2010 @ 5:04 by 41 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. Chapter 4 of this book describes the role that ancient science plays in the text of scripture. This is something that totally blows past most [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 4 (RJS)
Dec 9, 2010 @ 5:02 by 64 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. In the posts Tuesday we discussed the question of divine action in creation. Today we will look at another topic from the third chapter of [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 3 (RJS)
Dec 7, 2010 @ 5:05 by 41 Comments
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. In the posts today and Thursday we will look at the third chapter of the book. This chapter, The Creator in a Designed and Evolving [Read More…]
Evolutionary Creation 2 (RJS)
Nov 30, 2010 @ 5:10 by 59 Comments
The second chapter of Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution provides a sketch of five basic categories for common views on creation, Genesis, and human origins – young earth creation, old earth or progressive creation, evolutionary creation, deistic evolution, and dysteleological evolution.The sketches are designed to highlight the distinctions between [Read More…]
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