Review of "The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry" by S. Joshua Swamidass The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry S. Joshua Swamidass IVP Academic, 2019
Reviewed by Stephen Collins, who is a fellow of ISCAST and a retired physics lecturer. |
An environmentalist challenges alarmist environmentalism: A review of Michael Shellenberger's "Apocalypse Never" by Ian Harper Review of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, by Michael Shellenberger (New York, NY: Harper, pp. xiii + 413, including index) By Ian Harper |
Review of "Creation or Evolution: Do We Have To Choose?" by Denis Alexander Creation or Evolution: Do We Have To Choose? Denis Alexander (Monarch 2008) Monarch Books, Oxford, 2008 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1-85424-746-9 (UK), 978-0-8254-6292-4(US)
Reviewed by Ian Hore-Lacy |
Review of "Confronting Religious Denial of Science" by Catherine M. Wallace Review of Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination by Catherine M. Wallace. Review by Jonathan M. Hanes |
Review of "It Keeps Me Seeking" Review of It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion, by Andrew Briggs, Hans Halvorson and Andrew Steane (Oxford University Press, 2018) By John Pilbrow
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Ian Harper's book reviewed in The Melbourne Anglican ISCAST fellow Ian Harper recently published Confessions of a Meddlesome Economist. It was reviewed by Phil Dolan in the July 2019 edition of The Melbourne Anglican and the review is now up on their website here. The publisher says: |
"The Demon in the Machine..." Review Review of The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies (Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2019) By Andrew Wood |
"Hostility to Hospitality..." Review In this extended book review of Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine published in the Christian Journal for Global Health, ISCAST President, Alan Gijsbers, summarises and critiques an important book exploring the need for a larger place for spirituality in the delivery of health care. He agrees with the need but critiques some of reasons put forward to meet that need. For Alan the secular world need not be a hostile place for spirituality, but it calls for wisdom and winsomeness in the way we promote the gospel. |
Review of Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science Download a pdf of the review here For other reviews, visit the Journal reviews page here Review of Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science by Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight Review by Kathlyn Ronaldson, May 2019 |
Review of "Going 'Green'—Forests, Fire and a Flawed Conservation Culture," by Mark Poynter This review, by ISCAST fellow Ian Hore-Lacy, affirms Mark Poynter's view about Australian forest management that "culpable high-level ignorance threatens not just forestry but the forests themselves." According to Ian, this "begs for fuller attention by those concerned with stewardship of God’s creation in its providential aspects for human beings." |