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

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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.