Origins: God, Evolution, and the Question of the Cosmos - Hardcover

Rolnick, Philip A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602583684 ISBN 13: 9781602583689

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 directly engages the challenges of evolutionary biologyâits questions about design, natural selection, human uniqueness, and suffering, pain, and death. In doing so, he reveals how biological challenges can be turned to theological advantages, not by disputing scientific data and theory, but by inviting evolutionary biology into the Christian conversation about creation. 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.

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About the Author

Philip A. Rolnick is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota and Chair of the Science and Theology Network in the Twin Cities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602583684
• ISBN 13: 9781602583689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264