en-US Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:29:22 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review4077198460 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:29:22 -0700 /review/show/4077198460 Colin gave 4 stars to Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) by J.B. Stump
As J Stump points out, to those who are familiar with these views there is little new. Ken Ham continues his rhetoric based on a false hermeneutic which Ken Ham calls the "most natural reading of scripture". The other three views are discussed quite reasonably. Yet, as Jim Stump explains in the conclusion, Ham was unwilling to submit to the word limit. In Ham's typical manner, he accuses all the other contributors of not holding to the authority of scripture when it was just that they do not hold to Ham's faulty hermeneutic. Consequently, Ham's views tend to dominate a little.
Each view holds to the authority of Scripture.
The other contributors give ample opportunity to follow up their points with footnotes. Except for Ham, they give reasonable credibility to both the Bible and Science to show how they are able to hold no conflict between the Bible and Science. Each view holds a high view of the authority of the Bible.
So, this book presents a picture of the fractured relationships that seem to be caused in the Christian Scientific community of North America by the Young-earth Creationists. Those willing to accept an old earth were able to speak of ways to work cooperatively (Ken Ham did not).
I would recommend a more positive approach is to use the work of John Walton to explore what the early chapters of Genesis really do say in context. ]]>