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  I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution
 
Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers (2009)
   
This 170 page book is a popular version of my 500 page Evolutionary Creation (see below). It includes basic scientific evidence for evolution and deals with how to interpret the opening chapters of the Bible. The book has over 60 diagrams.
   Chapter 3: Ancient Science in the Bible
 
The key to reading statements about the natural world in the Bible is to recognize they reflect an ancient understanding of nature; or stated another way, the science-of-the-day.
  Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution
 
Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers (2008)
   
A full treatment of a Christian interpretation of evolution. Includes chapters on a Biblical understanding of intelligent design, a detailed approach to interpreting Genesis 1-11, a Christian view of human evolution, and my personal story of coming to terms with evolution—from young earth creationist to evolutionary creationist.
  Darwinism Defeated: The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on     Biological Origins
 
Vancouver, BC: Regent College Publications (1999)
   
A debate between me and the leader of the Intelligent Design Movement, lawyer Phillip E. Johnson. It also includes short papers by ID Theorists Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, and Stephen Meyer; and evolutionists Michael Denton, Howard Van Till, and Keith Miller.
Papers 
  Evolutionary Creation: Moving Beyond the "Evolution" vs.     "Creation Debate.
 

Christian Higher Education, 9: 1 (2010), 28-48.

   
This 12 page paper is an introduction to evolutionary creation.
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   Lessons from the Heavens: On Scripture, Science & Inerrancy
 

Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith: The Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation. March 2008 (60/1): 4-15. 

   
To the surprize of many Christians, the Bible features an ancient understanding of nature; in other words, an Ancient Science. This paper presents the ancient astronomy in Holy Scripture.
  Theological Insights from Charles Darwin
 
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith: The Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation. March 2004 (56/1): 2-11.
   
Regrettably, many assume that Charles Darwin was an atheist. However, a review of his writings reveals that he thought deeply about the theological implications of evolution.
  Charles Darwin & Intelligent Design
 
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2003. 15 (1): 23-42.
   
The traditional and Biblical understanding of intelligent design asserts that beauty, complexity, and functionality in nature reflect the mind of a Designer. Being a biologist, Charles Darwin experienced this Divine natural revelation and wrestled with its implications throughout his life.
  A Box or a Black Hole? A Response to Michael J. Behe
 
Canadian Catholic Review. July 1999. (17/3): 67-73. This paper is a response to Behe's "Design and Randomness in Evolution: Where Do the Data Point?" in the same journal issue on pages 63-66.
   
Michael Behe is the most important intelligent design theorists in the world today. In a remarkable admission, he reveals to me in this paper that his "official position" on origins is "agnostic."
The Phillip E. Johnson Phenomenon: Are Evangelicals
     Inheriting the Wind?
   
Delivered 3 Aug 98 at the American Scientific Affiliation Conference Churchill College, Cambridge University, England.