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Recommended Readings

• American Scientific Affiliation "Science in Christian Perspective"
• And God Said, "Let There Be Evolution!" Reconciling the Book of Genesis, the Qur'an, and the Theory of Evolution, edited by Charles M. Wynn, Sr. and Arthur W. Wiggins
• The Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong
• Can You Believe in God AND Evolution?  by Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett
• A Catechism of Creation: An Episcopal Understanding
• A Christian Response to the New Genetics, edited by David H. Smith and Cynthia B. Cohen, Rowman & Littlefield
• Counterbalance Metalibrary
• "Darwinism and Original Sin"  by Daniel K. Brannan, Journal for Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Science, 2007
• Does God Play Dice?: Divine Providence and Chance, by Elizabeth Johnson
• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics
• Ethics and Technoculture, by J. Mark Thomas
• Eternal Life: A New Vision  by Bishop John Shelby Spong
• Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist  by Joan Roughgarden
• Evolution for Christians  by Robert Schneider
• Evolution from Creation to New Creation: Conflict, Conversation and Convergence, by Marty Hewlett and Ted Peters
• Evolution vs. Creationism, by Eugenie Scott
• The Evolution-Creation Controversy II: Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Geological Education. Edited by Kelley, P.H., J. Bryan, and T.A. Hansen (1999). The Paleontological Society Papers, vol. 5 (series editor, W. Manger).
• The Evolution-Creation Controversy by Michael Ruse (2005)
• Evolution, The Importance of by Jim Hibbett (2013)
• Evolutionary Christianity
• Evolutionary Creation by Dennis Lamoureux
• "Evolutionary Explanation and the Ideal of Altruism" by Daniel K. Brannan and Carl Gillett, European Journal of Science and Theology, 2005
• The Fascinated God, by Robert Zinser
• Finding Darwin's God, by Kenneth Miller
• Genesis and Geology: A Study of the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britian, 1790-1850, by Charles Gillispie
• God after Darwin, by John H. Haught
• God and Evolution: A Faith-Based Understanding, by David Wilcox
• God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory , by Niall Shanks
• Genesis: Interpretation, by Walter Brueggemann
• The Great Partnership: Science, Religion and the Search for Meaning , by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
• Honest to Genesis: A Biblical and Scientific Challenge to Creationism, by Margaret Gray Towne
• In Search of Divine Reality: Science As a Source of Inspiration, by Lothar Schafer
• "Is Theism Compatible with Evolution"
• Islam's Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science, by Nidhal Guessoum
• Judge John E. Jones III, Decision in Dover, PA case
• The Luminous Web, by Barbara Brown Taylor
• review by Nelson Stringer of Making God Talk Sense, by Vernon G. Goff
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, by Stephen Barr
• National Council of Churches statement on religion and teaching evolution
• Not Just Science: Questions Where Christian Faith and Natural Science Intersect , by Dorothy Chappell and E. David Cook (editors)
• Nature, Human Nature, and God, by Ian B. Barbour
• Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, Kenneth R. Miller
• Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter
• Paradise Lost: The Religious Life of Charles Darwin, David Wollert
• Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, by Keith Miller
• Philosophy and Technology (volume on Religion)
• The Politicization of Science in the United States, Union for Reform Judaism
• Prayers to an Evolutionary God, by William Cleary and Diarmuid O. Murchu
• Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith
• Presbyterian Church (USA) Evolution Statement
• Presbyterian Controversy, by B.J. Longfield
• "Purpose in a Darwinian World" by Michael Ruse
• Quarks, Chaos and Christianity by John Polkinghorne
• "Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues", by Ian Barbour
• "The Right of Aesthetic Realism to be Known" - international periodical of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
• Science and Spirit
• Science, Evolution, and Creationism by National Academy of Sciences
• Science and The Search for God by Gary A. Kowalski
• "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1922)
• Shortcut to a Miracle: How to Change Your Consciousness and Transform Your Life, by Elizabeth Rann Arrott and Michael C. Rann
• The Spiritual Situation In our Technical Society, by Paul Tillich, ed. by J. Mark Thomas
• "Theological Implications of an Evolving Creation" by Keith Miller
• Thank God for Evolution by Michael Dowd
• The Universe in a Single Atom, the Dalai Lama
• Voices for Evolution  statements from religious organizations
• When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?, by Ian Barbour
• Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) by Matt Young and Paul K. Strode