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    Creation or Evolution
    Creation or Evolution
    Creation or Evolution
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    Creation or Evolution

    By Denis Alexander

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    Creation or Evolution helps you make sense of the complex common ground between the biblical doctrine of creation and the scientific evidence behind the theory of evolutionary.

    With the guidance of neuroscientist Denis Alexander - a passionate believer in both the Bible and science, you can build a fully integrated understanding of the tricky questions that have divided so many for too long.

    This book combines the latest genetic research with an exploration of what we mean by creation and evolution to overcome the common scientific and religious objections to each. He addresses the argument that evolution is atheistic and discovers who Adam and Eve really were.

    An enthusiast for both the biblical and scientific contributions to our understanding of God and creation, he shows how the concept of The Fall be reconciled with evolutionary theory. Finally he asks the big question: how could a God of love create a world where people kill each other and inflict so much suffering?

    Read Creation or Evolution and you will discover that maybe you don't have to choose. And you will have the arguments and responses to help others overcome their objections to biblical faith without abandoning the scientific facts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMonarch Books
    Release dateSep 19, 2014
    ISBN9780857215796
    Creation or Evolution
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    Denis Alexander

    Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion,St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that he was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. There he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics. He was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. Dr Alexander writes, lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of science and religion. His Monarch titles include: Creation or Evolution and Is There Purpose in Biology?.

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    • 4/5
      (Based on the original 2008 edition) A very readable account of the origins of life written by an eminent biochemist and committed Christian. The book shows that Denis has made extensive studies of religious texts of several religions as well as modern science - it includes introductory chapters on both. Denis explains how there is, for him at least, no conflict between the scientific theories of evolution, backed up by modern genetics, and the bible stories about the Garden of Eden.
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      Written for evangelicals about evolution and how it fits with the bible and Christian teaching. It includes excellent descriptions of the mechanism of inheritance and how new species come about. He concentrates on genetics rather than fossils and clearly believes there is no escaping evolution from the genes alone, never mind all the other evidence. He thoroughly looks at the difficulties with genesis and outlines how they can be reconciled. He tackles the arguments of the young earth believers and then spends a lot of time on Intelligent Design. (The best account of this I have come across.) The final chapter makes it clear he is sure we will eventually find out the mechanism for the origin of cells DNA and life came about on earth.The handling of Adam and Eve is thorough, and his favoured solution of a private revelation of God to A&E making them Homo Divinus, in among a lot of other H Sapiens is compared fairly to other theories. I am beginning to think its easier to take the whole thing as figurative.I think he could have spent a bit more time dealing with evil and suffering, although they do get attention, and reminding us how God can still be in control when we seem to have a mechanism operating without needing him at all.

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