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Session 2: An Accident in the Making? Creation, Evolution and Interpreting Genesis

Useful resources and links for those leading or participating in the Test of FAITH short course, session 2 & 2b.

Taking it further, websites and articles, origins:

• Bob White, The Age of the Earth
• Ernest Lucas, Interpreting Genesis in the 21st Century
• Graeme Finlay, Homo divinus: The Ape that Bears God’s Image
• The American Scientific Affiliation’s ‘Creation and Evolution’ page (different views from a Christian perspective)

Taking it further, websites and articles, the environment:

• A carbon footprint calculator and carbon offset scheme
• Resources from A Rocha, a Christian conservation group
• Resources and articles from the JRI
• Articles and courses from Au Sable
• The UK ‘Ecocongregation’ scheme
• The Evangelical Environment Network (US)
• John Houghton, ‘Why Care for the Environment’
• John Houghton, ‘Global Warming, Climate Change and Sustainability’
• Robert White, ‘A Burning Issue: Christian Care for the Environment’

Supplementary resources:

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  Bonus 2.1: John Houghton, Environmental Issues

  Sir John felt that working in the IPCC was wonderful...

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  Bonus 2.2: John Houghton, The Putrefied World

  The developed world has a moral imperative to the developing world...

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  Bonus 2.3: Alistair McGrath, The Purified World

  Most Christians at the beginning of the twentieth century thought that the world was...

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  Bonus 2.4: Ian Hutchinson, What do we do?

  Nuclear Physicist Ian Hutchinson says that the real problem globally is...

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  Bonus 2.5: Catherine Cutler, What do we do?

  Catharine Cutler says that each of us produce the greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide...

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  Bonus 2.6: John Houghton, What do we do?

  Sir John Houghton says that we must be sensible about how we respond to climate change.

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  Darwin's Test of Faith: Lessons from a Victorian Agnostic, by Nick Spencer

  What did Charles Darwin believe? And what can we learn from it?

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  Briefing Sheet Session 1: Reading Genesis
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  Briefing Sheet Session 2: The age of the Earth
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  Briefing Sheet Session 2: Evidence for evolution
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  Briefing Sheet Session 2: Intelligent Design
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  Briefing Sheet Session 2: Random Chance?
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  Simon Conway Morris, Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (CUP, 2003)

  Simon Conway Morris makes the argument that although life may be a very rare phenomenon, once it gets...

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  Charles Foster, The Selfless Gene (Hodder, 2009)

  How can Christians reconcile a loving God with the theory of evolution, and its seemingly selfish and painful mechanism, natural selection?

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  Nick Spencer & Robert White, Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living (SPCK, 2007)

  Authors Nick Spencer & Robert White set out a compelling three-part Christian vision of environmental action.

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