Synopsis
In this book I have attempted to chart a path for the reader toward understanding how rigorous empirical scientific thought and solid, informed as well as inspired religious faith are in fact congruent. The instruments that are used in this book to chart this path include: (1) the findings of scripture scholars regarding the Genesis creation narratives, (2) the basic biology of evolution and genetics, (3) the philosophy and theology behind the positions people take with respect to evolution and religious faith, (4) the basics of the science of complexity, (5) the evolutionary thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and (6) the evolutionary theology of John Haught. Out in the forest there are two clearwater streams that, at close range, apparently flow from different mountaintops? but which, when viewed from farther away, can be seen to flow from two ridges of the same mountain. Somewhere in the forest, the two streams join ? become confluent. The purpose of this book is to find this confluence.
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À propos de l?auteur
Joseph Fortier, a Jesuit priest, has published on insect phylogeny and taxonomy while teaching college biology for 10 years. He developed and taught an undergraduate course on evolution and Christian theology. He is presently working with the Environmental Trust of the Colville Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington State.
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