The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 240 pages
• Published by: Broadway Books October 20, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 076790303X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0767903035
• Book Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 8 ounces

Reader Reviews
Certainly this is a well written book on an extremely important and difficult topic. Schroeder has the ability to bring difficult concepts to words graspable. However, after reading his theory of reconciling science with the Old Testament, it remains less than persuasive to me. I relate with this Kirkus Review comment: "Though respectful of both science and faith, this book is unlikely to convince either scientist or theologian." Far more able to speak on the theological level, I find many of his interpretations manipulated to his own cause, e.g. Gen. 1:12 which he interprets: "and the earth brought forth life." A more reliable interpretation of the text renders: "and the earth(or land) brought forth vegetation." Further, he cites no credible Hebrew scholar who agrees with his interpretation of day for order and night for chaos. He relies much more for his case on the mystical kabbalah, especially Nahmanides, which can only be explained at best as "opinion." This leaves him in positions which do not square with all of inspired Scripture. Science as well will not accept all of Schroeder's thinking. With a fossil record so sparse and incomplete, it seems very tenuous to draw the conclusions that he makes with any assurance. As one writer put it, "What we need are more compotent fossils. We have enough compotent anthopologists." When one realizes the move from a fragment of a jaw to what the skull and skeleton looked like, it decreases any confidence in the decisiveness which these scientists make. The press relays this as scientific fact, rather than the reality of opinion which it is in fact. There is no fossil or Biblical evidence for preadamites. This is only a modern version of the Gap Theory continuted to be played out cloaked with this physics idea of differing time. For the exact opposite view of Schroeder's key thesis: clocks ticking faster at the center and slow at the edge of the cosmos--- see D. Russell Humphreys book "Starlight and Time." Humphreys even contends he has communicated with Schroeder and other physicists and no one has refuted his scientific computations which seriously challenges Schroeder's. However, I much appreciate the fact that a scientist finds the historical evolutionary argument to be untenable scientifically as well as Biblically. Evidence for a Creator is to be applauded. Comment | | (Report this)