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Question: Who made us?
Answer #1: God made us.
Answer #2: Evolution made us.

Which is it? What is the true answer to the age-old question of where we came from? Is it even possible to know for sure?

In Finding Darwin's God, Kenneth R. Miller offers a surprising resolution to the evolutionism vs. creationism debate.A distinguished professor of biology at Brown University, Miller argues that the genuine world of science is far more interesting than either the scientific mainstream or its creationist critics have assumed. He begins by systematically demolishing the claims of evolution's most vocal critics, showing that Darwin's great insights continue to be valid, even in the rarefied worlds of biochemistry and molecular biology. As he puts it, evolution "is the real thing, and so are we."

Does this mean that evolution invalidates all worldviews that depend upon the spiritual? Does it demand logical agnosticism as the price of scientific consistency? And does it rigorously exclude belief in God?

His answer, in each and every case, is a resounding No. Not, as he argues, because evolution is wrong. Far from it. The reason, as Miller shows, is that evolution is right.

In this lively, fast-paced book, Miller offers a thoughtful, cutting-edge analysis of the key issues that seem to divide science and religion. As his narrative shows, the difficulties that evolution presents for Western religions are more apparent than real. Properly understood, evolution adds depth and meaning not only to a strictly scientific view of the world, but also to a spiritual one. Miller's resolution of the issues that seem to divide God from evolution will serve as a guide to anyone interested in the classic questions of ultimate meaning and human origins.

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An act of intellectual daring and spiritual integrity...a refreshing departure fromthe tired polemics of the evolution wars. (Book List, starred review)

About the Author

Kenneth R. Miller, a recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching, is a cell biologist, a professor of biology at Brown University, and the coauthor of widely used high school and college biology textbooks. In addition, he has written articles that have appeared in numerous scientific journals and magazines, including Nature, Scientific American, Cell, and Discover. He lives in Rehoboth, Massachussetts.

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Publisher: HarpPeren; 1st edition (September 15, 2000)
Language: English
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Randolph Eck

Interesting Discussion on Evolution and God

March 6, 2012

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My attention was attracted to this book because here we have a scientist who tries to reconcile a materialistic natural process - evolution - to the concept of the existence of God, in this case a Western monotheistic God.

In the first seven chapters, out of nine, Miller has produced a clever and powerful defense of evolution. I found chapter three, God the Charlatan, to be very interesting. Here Miller shows the clear evidence for a multi-billion year old earth. He describes how the 235U/207Pb ratio and other independent uranium and thorium methods along with the potassium/argon dating method prove the age of the earth. There are tables listing nuclides (isotopes of various elements) clearly showing the concept of half-life decay which also demonstrates the age of the earth. There are also rubidium/strontium graphs with an isochron (a chart line signifying events that happen at the same time) lending support to an old earth. In chapter four, God the Magician, we are introduced to the concepts of phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium and the concept of speciation. It is shown that a direct creation of individual species was most improbable. There is some discussion of mutation rates in nature and experiments that show that these rates were sufficient to produce descent with modification as well. In the next chapter, God the Mechanic, Miller introduces us to fallacies proposed by the intelligent design group and how they got it wrong. Here he takes a stab at explaining the concept of irreducible complexity and provides the best example I've read about how the blood clotting process could have evolved.

In the last two chapters, Miller proceeds to present his reconciliation between God and evolution. I laud his attempt to show that evolution and religion can complement one another. In a nutshell, Miller argues that an evolutionary process would be necessary to produce ultimately a human species that has free will and is capable of worshiping God the creator. But he does run into some difficulties here, I feel. For instance, demonstrating the idea that God can answer prayers and intervene subtly in human affairs, that through evolution he intended to create creatures deserving of a soul, that he wished the universe to be a place where his creatures had a free choice between good and evil and between God and darkness, and various other problems with merging religious belief systems with an evolutionary process.

I leave it to the reader to determine if Miller was successful in this endeavor. Nevertheless, I found this book to be a very interesting read, especially the section on evolution.

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David T.

Seemed like a good primer book on evolution

March 20, 2011

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In the past 700 years science has had a way of humbling humans more and more, once we were the center of everything, created on day 6 in the image of God. First we learn that everything doesn't revolve around the Earth, instead we circle the sun. The sun isn't anything more than just one of billions of stars in the Milky Way, which itself is just one of billions of galaxies. The earth wasn't created created in 1 day, its billions of years old and humans aren't the first dominant species but instead just the latest in a large series. We weren't even created in one day but instead we've evolved over billions of years from a multitude of species. In this book Miller sets out to present the evidence for evolution and then later to shows that you can still believe in God and evolution.

The first half of the book presents the evidence for evolution while at the same time taking on the arguments from young earth creationists, intelligent design and theistic evolution. This is the first book on evolution I've read so I don't know how it compares to others, but its pretty convincing (well I think, I already accepted it). I liked how Miller presented the other sides arguments and then showed how they are mistaken, but doing so in a civil manner. The second half of the book deals with naturalism and the view that evolution has removed the need for God. He goes on to argue why God and evolution can coexists. Truthfully, in my opinion it almost seemed at times like the God he presents is one that I picture with open theology much more than the common one presented in Milers Catholic background. In a way I think I can accept this view of God sometimes more than the one presented in Calvinism which is so sovereign that he even controls or predestines our belief in Jesus. With evolution and a less active God, harder things to accept like disease or things like bedbugs become more tolerable, although sometimes it did seem that Miller was taking a deist approach even though several times he spoke against it. Overall I loved this book and it got me interested in reading more on evolution and especially interested in reading about genomes and DNA.

From my perspective having an evangelical background, I think the biggest hurdle to getting evolution or even an old earth model accepted, is getting the evangelical community to start to accept that Genesis isn't a scientific account of the early creation of the earth and man. Miller briefly mentioned this and showed how even early church fathers like Augustine didn't take the literal 6 day approach, but this is still going to be a battle. From my point of view to accept that the earth wasn't created in 6 days is to at least have to partially start to question inerrancy. Sadly there are many people who would rather put their head in the sand than confront these pressing issues.

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