The Evolving Debate over Origins
B. B. Warfield: Evolution, Science and Scripture, Selected Writings
edited by Mark A. Noll and David N. Livingstone
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2000
(347 pages; $23.99, paper)
reviewed by Jay W. Richards
Even for the most intellectually engaged, the recent discussion among Christians about Darwinism and Intelligent Design theory (ID) can be difficult to follow. Fortunately, ours is not the first generation to ponder such questions. In fact, B. B. Warfield intimated much of the discussion a hundred years ago.
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Jay W. Richards is vice president and senior fellow of the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He is the author most recently of The Untamed God (InterVarsity, 2003) and co-author with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (Regnery, 2004).
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