God and Evolution

Mary Kathleen Cunningham is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at North Carolina State University.

• Preface PART ONE Methodology 1 Charles Hodge The Protestant rule of faith 2 Sallie McFague metaphor 3 Mary Midgley How myths work 4 Ian G. Barbour the structures of science and religion PART TWO Evolutionary theory 5 Charles Darwin On the origin of species 6 Francisco J. Ayala The evolution of life: an overview 7 Michael Ruse Is there a limit to our knowledge of evolution? PART THREE Creationism 8 Genesis 1–2 9 Ronald L. Numbers The creationists PART FOUR Intelligent design 10 William Paley Natural theology 11 Michael J. Behe Irreducible complexity: obstacle to Darwinian evolution 12 Kenneth R. Mill er Answering the biochemical argument from design PART FIVE Naturalism 13 Richard Dawkins The blind watchmaker 14 Richard Dawkins God’s utility function 15 Daniel C . Dennett Darwin’s dangerous idea 16 Mary Midgley The quest for a universal acid 17 Michael Ruse Methodological naturalism under attack PART SIX Evolutionary theism 18 Howard J. Van Till The creation: intelligently designed or optimally equipped? 19 Arthur Peacocke biological evolution—a positive theological appraisal 20 Jürgen Moltmann God’s kenosis in the creation and consummation of the world 21 Elizabeth A. Johnson does God play dice? Divine providence and chance PART SEVEN Reformulations of tradition 24 Ruth Page Panentheism and pansyntheism: God in relation 25 Gordon D. Kaufman On thinking of God as serendipitous creativity, Index.