In the Beginning Science and Scripture Confirm Creation - Bryan torrent

In the Beginning: Science and Scripture Confirm Creation

Bryan W. Ball

Paperback Book 272 pages Copyright: 2012
Pacific Press Publishing Association ISBN: 0816326150


A biblical view of the earth and human beginnings

In an age when science and the scientific method dominate public opinion, those in the minority with a different worldview are often treated with contempt.

Sometimes it seems that evolutionists surround us. Every science article, each museum display, even pop culture, casually references imaginary creatures crawling out of the ooze hundreds of millions of years ago. Some Christians are actually starting to abandon literal readings of Genesis for theories that they perceive are more easily synthesized with the claims of science.

How we understand our origins affects virtually everything else we believe as Adventist Christians.

Adventism is foundationally based on Scripture. Today, people are questioning the Genesis account. What will they question next? If the Bible doesn’t have the final word on truth, what does?

Fortunately, there is great news. It is entirely possible to defend the traditional Adventist positions on Scripture, Creation and the Flood and not be scientifically illiterate. In fact, there are many questions that defy answers on the basis of science alone.

Do you really want to know where we come from? This book, written by a team of well-qualified Adventist Bible scholars and scientists from three continents, provides an intelligent, reasoned basis for a continuing belief in the Bible and the biblical teaching of the creatorship of God.


Foreword....................................................................7
Barry Oliver

Introduction................................................................9
Bryan W. Ball

1. Revelation and the Authority of Scripture...............................18
Bryan W. Ball

2. The Transmission and Credibility of the Genesis Text....................33
Robert K. Mclver

3. The Word Speaks for Itself: A Theology of Scripture.....................44
Jo Ann Davidson

4. Genesis: Introduction to the Canon and to Biblical Theology.............55
H. Ross Cole

5. A Theological Reading of Genesis........................................66
Laurence A. Turner

6. The Origins of Genesis Reconsidered.....................................81
Bryan W. Ball

7. Understanding the “When” of Creation in Genesis 1-2.....................97
Richard M. Davidson

8. Biblical Theology and the Doctrine of Creation.........................114
Paul B. Petersen

9. The New Testament Use of the Genesis Text..............................127
Steven Thompson

10. Christ and Creation: Implications of a Christocentric Understanding...141
William G. Johnsson

11. Intelligent Design: Evidence From Molecular Biology...................156
Timothy G. Standish

12. The Heavens Are Telling: A Biblically Informed Cosmology..............171
Grenville J. R. Kent

13. The Natural Limits of Neo-Darwinian Evolution.........................184
John C. Walton

14. A Survey of Scientific Opinion Critical of Evolutionary Theory........202
L. James Gibson

15. The Genesis Flood and the Geological Record...........................220
Ariel A. Roth

16. Social Darwinism: Some Consequences of Evolutionary Thinking..........238
Reinder Bruinsma

17. Theistic Evolution: Is It a Valid Option?.............................252
Lael Caesar