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Thursday 17 June 2021

Evolution and creation - a reading list

I have often considered writing a book on evolutionary creationism from a Christadelphian perspective and for a Christadelphian audience, but a number of good friends have advised me against that. Given the number of excellent books on the subject that already exist and the relatively few Christadelphian-specific theological points that such a book would make, there is much wisdom in that advice. Besides, as the author of Ecclesiastes noted, of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. What I believe is useful is providing a selective bibliography of books which I have found helpful.
 
Evolution-Creation Bibliography 
  • Applegate, Kathryn. How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science. Downers Grove. IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016.
  • Alexander, Denis. Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? Oxford, U.K.: Monarch Books, 2008
  • Alexander, Denis R., Numbers, Ronald L. Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010
  • Anderson, Joel E. The Heresy of Ham: What Every Evangelical Needs to Know About the Creation-Evolution Controversy. Birmingham-Hoover, AL: Archdeacon Books, 2016
  • Asher, Robert. Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012
  • Astley, Jeff, David Brown, and Ann Loades. Creation: A Reader. Problems in Theology. London; New York: T&T Clark, 2003.
  • Avise, John C. Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010
  • Berry, R. J. Christians and Evolution: Christian Scholars Change Their Minds. Oxford, U.K.: Monarch Books, 2014.
  • Bishop, Robert C., Funck, Larry L., Lewis, Raymond J., Moshier, Stephen O., Walton John H. Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins: Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018
  • Bouteneff, Peter C. Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.
  • Bowler, Peter J. Evolution: The History of an Idea. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. 
  • Bowler, Peter J. Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007
  • Carlson, Richard F., Longman, Tremper. Science, Creation and the Bible: Reconciling Rival Theories of Origins. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010
  • Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom. London, U.K.: Quercus, 2011
  • Carroll, Sean. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
  • Clack, Jennifer A. Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods. 2nd Ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012
  • Collins, Francis. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. New York, NY: Free Press, 2006.
  • Conway Morris, Simon. Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Dalrymple, G. Brent. The Age of the Earth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991 
  • DiMattei, Steven Genesis 1 and the Creationism Debate: Being Honest to the Text, Its Author, and His Beliefs Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016
  • Enns, Peter. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2012.
  • Fairbanks, Daniel J. Relics of Eden - The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007.
  • Falk, Darrel R. Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press: 2004
  • Finkel, Irving. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. London, U.K.: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
  • Finlay, Graeme. Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies, and Phylogenies. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Fitch, Walter M. The Three Failures of Creationism: Logic, Rhetoric, and Science. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2012 
  • Forrest, Barbara., Gross, Paul R. Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Fugle, Gary N. Laying Down Arms to Heal the Creation-Evolution Divide. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2015
  • Giberson, Karl W. Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2008
  • Giberson, Karl W., Collins, Francis S. The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2011
  • Grabbe, Lester L. Faith and Fossils: The Bible, Creation, and Evolution. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018.
  • Greenwood, Kyle R. Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015
  • Greenwood, Kyle R. (Ed) Since the Beginning: Interpreting Genesis 1 and 2 through the Ages. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2018 
  • Held Jr, Lewis I. Quirks of Human Anatomy: An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • Hill, Carol., Davidson, Gregg., Helble Tim., Ranney, Wayne. Eds. The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth: Can Noah’s Flood Explain the Grand Canyon? Grand Rapids. MI: Kregel Publications, 2016
  • Hoffmeier, James K., Gordon J. Wenham, and Kenton L. Sparks. Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on the Bible’s Earliest Chapters. Edited by Charles Halton and Stanley N. Gundry. Zondervan Counterpoints Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015.
  • Hyers, Conrad. The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science. Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1984
  • Felipe de JesÅ«s Legarreta-Castillo, The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15: The New Creation and Its Ethical and Social Reconfiguration, Emerging Scholars (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014)
  • Lamoureux, Denis O. Evolution: Scripture and Nature Say Yes! Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016
  • Lamoureux, Denis O. Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock, 2008
  • Lamoureux, Denis O., John H. Walton, C. John Collins, William D. Barrick, Gregory A. Boyd, and Philip G. Ryken. Four Views on the Historical Adam. Edited by Matthew Barrett, Ardel B. Caneday, and Stanley N. Gundry. Zondervan Counterpoints Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2013.
  • Lamoureux, Denis O. I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009
  • Lents, Nathan H. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. New York, NY: Houghton Miller Harcourt Publishing, 2018
  • Livingstone, David N . Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion & the Politics of Human Origins. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
  • Livingstone, David N. Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought. Scottish Academic Press, 1984.
  • Mahoney, Jack. Christianity in Evolution - An Exploration. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011.
  • Miller, Johnny V., and John M. Soden. In the Beginning … We Misunderstood: Interpreting Genesis 1 in Its Original Context. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2012.
  • Miller, Kenneth R. Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999
  • Montgomery, David R. The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012
  • Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006 
  • Osborne, Ronald E., Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014
  • Pahl, Michael W. The Beginning and the End: Rereading Genesis’s Stories and Revelations’s Visions. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011
  • Parry, Robin A. The Biblical Cosmos: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014
  • Patte, Daniel, and Vasile Mihoc, eds. Greek Patristic and Eastern Orthodox Interpretations of Romans. Vol. 9. Romans through History and Cultures. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • Polkinghorne, John C. Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2006.
  • Prothero, Donald R. Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters. 2nd Ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017
  • Richards, Robert J. Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013
  • Rudwick, Martin J. S. Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • Scott, Eugenie C Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction 2nd Ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009
  • Shubin, Neil. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2020
  • Shubin, Neil. Your Inner Fish A Journey into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body. London, U.K.: Penguin Books, 2008
  • Smith, Mark S. The Genesis of Good and Evil: The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible. First edition. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2019.
  • Smith, Mark S. The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2010
  • Stanhope, B. (Mis)interpreting Genesis. How the Creation Museum Misunderstands the Ancient Near Eastern Context of the Bible. Louisville, KY: Scarab Press, 2020
  • Stringer, Chris. The Origin of Our Species. London, U.K.: Penguin Books, 2011
  • Thewissen, J.G.M. The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014
  • Venema, Dennis R., and Scot McKnight. Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2017.
  • Walton, John H. Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.
  • Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.
  • Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009.
  • Walton, J.H. The Lost World of Adam and Eve. Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2015.
  • Wiley, Tatha. Creationism and the Conflict over Evolution. Cascade Companions. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2009.
  • Wiley, Tatha. Original Sin: Origins, Developments, and Contemporary Meanings. NJ: Paulist Press, 2002.
  • Yilmaz, Aaron R. Deliver Us From Evolution: A Christian Biologist’s In-Depth Look at the Evidence Reveals a Surprising Harmony Between Science and God. Sehnsucht Publishing, 2019