A search for meaning in nature; a new look at creation and evolution [by] Richard M. Ritland.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press Pub. Association [1970]Description: 320 p. illus., map, ports. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 215
LOC classification:
  • BL 240.2 .R55 1970
Contents:
Contents:
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.
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Judith Thomas Library General Stacks Books BL 240.2 .R55 1970 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA010457 Available AUA010457

Includes bibliographies.

Contents:

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.