Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution

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Summary: Christianity and evolution together at last.
Review: Theologian John F. Haught gives brief answers to 101 questions about the relationship between the Christian God and evolution, in which he explores an unusual middle path between creationist opposition to science and materialistic interpretations of the evolutionary process. Haught's stance is that evolution, understood in even the most robust Darwinian sense, is exactly the process we would expect the Christian God to institute in order to create life. Die-hard creationists will not like this book at all, and materialists (like me) will find Haught's reasons for rejecting a materialistic interpretation of evolution completely unconvincing (though he is certainly right to point out that the data does not interpret itself), but those who believe in both God and evolution will find many new and stimulating lines of thought in this book. All in all, although I disagreed with Haught's stance, I appreciated watching such a deep thinker work through such a novel position.