01407cam a2200217 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100017000720400018000890500024001070820008001311000032001392450100001712600067002713000040003385040029003785050014004075050742004216500026011634549050AUA.120151110163517.0701217s1970 cauabc b 001 0 eng  a 71115432  aDLCcDLCdDLC00aBL 240.2b.R55 197000a2151 aRitland, Richard M.,d1925-12aA search for meaning in nature;ba new look at creation and evolutionc[by] Richard M. Ritland. aMountain View, Calif.,bPacific Press Pub. Associationc[1970] a320 p.billus., map, ports.c22 cm. aIncludes bibliographies. aContents: a The pendulum swings -- The problem of knowing -- The origin of life -- ancient views -- What is life? -- Is divine creation of life necessary? -- Recent ideas on origin -- The crust of the earth -- designed for life? -- Boundless energy -- The record of past life -- Change or fixity -- Have animals and plants become more complex through the ages? -- Missing links in the chain of life -- Bias in the fossil record -- Catastrophes and the Uniformitarian hypothesis -- The recent past: giants -- fact and fancy -- Frozen mammoths -- Problems in determining the origin of man -- The "missing links" between man and ape -- Charles Darwin and the distribution of life -- The living world -- A Christian view of nature in a changing world. 0aReligion and science.