Confluence of Evolutionary Science and Christian Faith: Toward an Integration

by Joseph Fortier

Overview

In this book I have attempted to chart a path for the reader toward understanding how rigorous empirical scientific thought and solid, informed as well as inspired religious faith are in fact congruent with respect to evolution. The instruments that are used in this book to chart this path include: (1) the findings of scripture scholars regarding the Genesis creation narratives; (2) the basic biology of evolution and genetics; (3) the basics of the sciences of complexity; (4) the philosophy and theology behind the positions people take with respect to evolution and religious faith; (5) the thinking of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on evolution and God, and (6) the evolutionary theology of John Haught. In the remote wilderness there are two clearwater streams that at close range apparently flow from different mountaintops – but which, when viewed from farther away, can be seen to flow from two ridges of the same mountain. Somewhere in the wilds, the two streams join – become confluent. The purpose of this book is to find this confluence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465380814
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	11/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joseph Fortier, a Jesuit priest, earned his doctorate in systematic entomology, and has published on insect phylogeny and taxonomy while teaching college biology for 10 years. He developed and taught an undergraduate course on evolution and Christian theology. Fortier was born in Spokane, Washington and grew up in Alaska. He is presently working for the Dept. of Natural Resources of the Colville Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington State, and ministering to the people there.