Prologue: A Colleague turns sixty
Has science replaced the Bible? The great debate
The new convergence: sience, scientists, and the Bible
The age of our universe: six days and fifteen billion years
The nature of God: biblical expectations for an infinite yet immanent creator
Life: its origins and its evolution
Evolution: statistics versus random mutations
The watchmaker and the watch
Why bad (and good) things happen
Bread from Earth: a universe tuned for life
Epilogue: Well, what about dinosaurs?
Appendix: Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) as a universal clock
Problems in estimating the age of the universe
The logic of having a biblical calendar
The long life spans at the time of Adam and Eve
The flood and the time of Noah
A letter anf a reply: why God and the God practicle are not at odds
What is the wisdon of Creation?
Figure 1. Ages of births and deaths of persons following Adam and Eve
Figure 2. The effect of relative motion and the stretching of space on the observed frequency of light waves
Figure 3. The exponential spiral: a curve commonly found in out universe
Figure 4. Two concepts of evolution
Figure 5. Similarities among tetrapod limbs
Figure 6. Several vertebrate embryos
Figure 7. A time line from Creation to Abraham
Figure 8. Water waves passing through two sizes of harbor openings
Figure 9. Patterns of light on a screen after passing through an opaque plate with (top) one slit open, (bottom) two slits open
figure 10. The fifth dimension: an alternative view of reality.
