A Book Read - God and Stephen Hawking - John Lennox

Easy to read, a good thoughtful engagement with and challenge to the logical consistency of Hawking's dismissal of God, by a professor of Mathematics at Oxford.

I really enjoyed this book and helped me, with other things that I am reading at the moment, to get a better picture of the world we live in, and the debates about it that are currently on offer between scientists of faith and those of atheistic persuasion.

Great read, and for $5.50, great value. 8.5/10

A book Read - Science, Creation and the Bible. Carlson & Longman

Sometimes the more you know, the more you realize you don't know! This is one of those areas. Always tangled in controversy it seem a hard area to do thinking out loud... so here goes!

I started this book with the question, "what is the genre of the creation accounts in Genesis?", unfortunately I finished the book with the same question! Which is not to say I didn't learn a lot on the journey, it's just to say, I think I got off this train a few stations before they did.

In the end their attempt at explaining the complex issue of the genre resulted in a two layered approach - that seems to me for all money to be allegory. Now that is in good company in the history of interpretation, Augustine for one, but I am a little uncomfortable with it as it pretty quickly cuts historicity out from under you - and then Adam becomes the next to go, and the NT speaks confidently about him I think.

I think understanding the presentation of Genesis as being truth focussed to a certain depth is where I am at, so a worldview of creation written for the naked eye - not the electron microscope, helps as it is true in what it tells us, we just have to understand how to read it well.

Worth a read - but not the end of the issue by any means 6.5/10