Beginnings: Are Science And Scripture Partners in the Search for Origins [Paperback]

Leonard Brand (Author), David C. Jarnes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2005

Life's always more complicated than you expect it to be. It's been that way since the beginning!
Scientific theories that present simple answers to the age-old question "Where did I come from?" usually prove inadequate.
Leonard Brand understands these things, and he has a knack for making complicated things easy to grasp. This book may not provide all the simple answers we might wish we had about the relationship between science and the bible, but it does introduce us to the kind of questions that need to be asked. Questions such as, Is it possible to believe in both the Bible and microevolution? Does natural selection ever produce more advanced life forms? How do creationists explain why ostriches have wings and humbans have wisdom teeth and appendixes?
No matter what theory on creation or evolution you support, you'll find thought-provoking questions and answers here.
But more important, you'll find good reason to believe that there is a Mind behind creation—the mind of a God who carefully put it all together, and who still cares about His handiwork. Including you.

Leonard Brand has been a researcher and professor of biology and paleontology at Loma Linda University for 35 years. He has published research papers in scientific journals and articles in church magazines. He has a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Leonard lives in California with his wife and has two grown children.

<h3 style="color: #075899;">Book Specs</h3>

Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Pacific Press
Printed: 2006
Pages: 224

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Pacific Pr Pub Assn (April 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816321442
• ISBN-13: 978-0816321445
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,737,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent review of a hot topic, May 30, 2006

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Beginnings: Are Science and Scripture Partners in the Search for Origins? by Leonard Brand Pacific Press Publishing Association is a good brief summary of the case for creation and the work that needs to be done in this area.
This very readable well illustrated 176 page book includes the major topics from geology to molecular biology that are of concern in this now hot controversy. Dr. Brand has a Ph.D. from Cornell University in paleontology and has 35 years teaching experience at the university level. He honestly looks at both the strengths and weaknesses of both sides to help readers understand the controversy. Although he takes the creation position, he effectively shows why so many people accept Darwinism, a view that he treats objectively and accurately. In chapter two Brand shows how important Darwinism was in overturning the traditional Christian world view. He also shows that much of the resistance to Darwinism was from scientists. It was not until around the 1940s that a majority of biologists accepted Darwin's major contribution to transformatism theory, natural selection (p. 21). Brand, in my judgment, accurately notes that if Darwin were proposing his naturalistic theory of evolution for the first time today, our understanding the cell and its working would preclude most scientists from accepting it. An example he notes is the kinesin system of transporting materials around the cell. These carriers shoulder a transport vesicle and use two "legs" powered by ATP to "walk" along a microtubule. The kinesin legs alternatively detach and move forward, then reattach the microtubule. The system requires an address label so that the transporter system transports its load to the proper place in the cell. This requires a delivery route so that the load arrives at the proper place at the correct time. It must have directions to go forward and how far and when to go up, go down, or turn left or right to navigate in the three dimensional space of the cell.