Winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Bible Reference Works
Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two dozen highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America, this volume contests this proposal, documenting evidential, logical, and theological problems with theistic evolution—making it the most comprehensive critique of theistic evolution yet produced.

Explains why theistic evolution is not congruent with a biblical worldview
Features nineteen essays written by well-known experts in their fields
Designed to be used as a textbook for courses on religion and evolution
Accessible for those without expertise in the subject

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Cover
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Title Page
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Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Preface to the Third Printing
Dedication
Foreword
Scientific and Philosophical Introduction
Biblical and Theological Introduction
Section I The Scientific Critique of Theistic Evolution
Section I, Part 1 The Failure of Neo-Darwinism
1 Three Good Reasons for People of Faith to Reject Darwin’s Explanation of Life
2 Neo-Darwinism and the Origin of Biological Form and Information
3 Evolution: A Story without a Mechanism
4 Are Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Accurately Pointing toward First Life?
5 Digital Evolution: Predictions of Design
6 The Difference It Doesn’t Make: Why the “Front-End Loaded” Concept of Design Fails to Explain the Origin of Biological
7 Why DNA Mutations Cannot Accomplish What Neo-Darwinism Requires
8 Theistic Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Does It Work?
9 Evidence from Embryology Challenges Evolutionary Theory
Section I, Part 2 The Case against Universal Common Descent and for a Unique Human Origin
10 The Fossil Record and Universal Common Ancestry
11 Universal Common Descent: A Comprehensive Critique
12 Five Questions Everyone Should Ask about Common Descent
13 The Battle over Human Origins (Introduction to Chapters 14–16)
14 Missing Transitions: Human Origins and the Fossil Record
15 Evidence for Human Uniqueness
16 An Alternative Population Genetics Model
17 Pressure to Conform Leads to Bias in Science
Section II: The Philosophical Critique of Theistic Evolution
18 Why Science Needs Philosophy
19 Should Theistic Evolution Depend on Methodological Naturalism?
20 How to Lose a Battleship: Why Methodological Naturalism Sinks Theistic Evolution
21 How Theistic Evolution Kicks Christianity Out of the Plausibility Structure and Robs Christians of Confidence that the Bible Is
22 How to Think about God’s Action in the World
23 Theistic Evolution and the Problem of Natural Evil
24 Bringing Home the Bacon: The Interaction of Science and Scripture Today
25 The Origin of Moral Conscience: Theistic Evolution versus Intelligent Design
26 Darwin in the Dock: C. S. Lewis on Evolution
Section III The Biblical and Theological Critique of Theistic Evolution
27 Theistic Evolution Undermines Twelve Creation Events and Several Crucial Christian Doctrines
28 Theistic Evolution Is Incompatible with the Teachings of the Old Testament
29 Theistic Evolution Is Incompatible with the Teachings of the New Testament
30 Theistic Evolution Is Incompatible with Historical Christian Doctrine
31 Additional Note: B. B. Warfield Did Not Endorse Theistic Evolution as It Is Understood Today
General Index
Scripture Index

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