Science & Religion: Bridging the Gap

a booklet produced by the Worldwide Church of God in 1994, now available online


Since the beginning of the 20th century, scientists have been exploring an entirely new way of looking at the world and the universe. Their discoveries have raised challenging new questions for those who do not believe in God — and especially for those who do.

Chapter 1: Twilight of Faith

Chapter 2: Groping in the Dark

Chapter 3: Groping in the Light

The Big Bang Theory

The Power of the Atom

Chapter 4: Mind and Matter

Does God Play Dice? 

Some Further Reading

Other articles about science:

Debate series between Fred Heeren and Bernard Leikind:
    1. Do Recent Discoveries in Science
           Offer Evidence for the Existence of God?
    2. Does Modern Cosmology Point to a Biblical Creator?
    3.
Does Christianity Offer the Best Reason
           for a Moral and Meaningful Life?

The faith of an atheist — a discussion with Alister McGrath

Intelligent Design: What it is ... what it isn't

Must we choose between science and the Bible?

Astrophysics and apologetics, an interview

Evolution: fact or faith, by John Halford

Biologists who reject Darwinism, by Alan Hayward

Beyond the reach of science, by David O'Brien 

Religion in an age of science, by John Polkinghorne

Science and religion, by Dick Tripp
     What does Genesis 1 really teach?

Genesis 1: the six-day war, by M. Morrison

The battle over Genesis 1, by Neil Earle

Transformations in the history of cosmology, by John McKenna

Are geologic strata the result of the Flood? 
An overview of the geologic record  
How plants and animals have changed through the geologic eras
How land animals have changed through geologic time
 
Creative development: a better explanation than evolution

 

Links about science and religion
The Worldwide Church of God provides these links as information assistance, not as endorsement of any list or link.

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, links related to scholarship on science and religion

God's action in the world, by John Polkinghorne

American Association for the Advancement of Science - dialogue on science, ethics and religion

Coral reefs and related carbonate structures as indicators of great age, by Daniel Wonderly

Are the days of Genesis longer than 24 hours? The Bible says, "Yes!" by Perry Phillips

Radiometric Dating, Paleosols and the Geologic Column: Three strikes against Young Earth Creationism, by Joe Meert

The Geologic Column and its Implications for the Flood, by Glenn Morton

The days of creation: hours or eons? by Dick Fisher

The antiquity and the unity of the human race revisited, by Davis Young

Radiometric dating: a Christian perspective, by Roger Wiens

Space and time in the Genesis cosmogony, by Meredith G. Kline

From chaos to cosmos: a critique of the framework hypothesis, by Joseph Pipa

Genesis creation: literal or literary? by Kenneth Gentry

American Scientific Affiliation creation/ evolution page

Report of the Creation Study Committee, Presbyterian Church of America (very long)

Critical thought and religious liberty page on intelligent design

Taxonomy, transitional forms, and the fossil record, by Keith Miller

The status of evolution as a scientific theory, by Robert Newman, John Bloom, Perry Phillips, and John Studenroth

A proposed creationist alternative to evolutionism, by Robert Dunzweiler

The evolution of a skeptic: an interview with Dr. Michael Behe

The mistrial of evolution: a review of Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial, by Terry Gray

Complexity—Yes! Irreducible—maybe! Unexplainable—no! A creationist critique of irreducible complexity, by Terry Gray

Finding Darwin's God: the new battle over evolution, by Kenneth Miller

 

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