NOTES
- Raymond J. Nogar, The Wisdom of Evolution (New York: New American
Library, 1963); Bernard L. Ramm, The Christian View of Science and
Scripture (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1954); Peter Medawar,
The Limits of Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984). - James K. A. Smith, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to
Christian Philosophy , Pentecostal Manifestos (Grand Rapids, MI: William
B. Eerdmans, 2010). - Amos Yong, The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in
the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination , (Grand Rapids, MI: William B.
Eerdmans, 2011). - A Catechism of Creation: An Episcopal Understanding , 1st ed., Rev. 2005,
http://episcopalscience.org/resources/catechism-creation/. - Amos Yong, Renewing Christian Theology: Systematics for a Global
Christianity , (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014), Chap. 11. - Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology , (Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). - Bernd Heinrich, Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death , (New York:
Houghton Miffl in Harcourt, 2012). - The early work on the ubiquitin system led to the 2004 Nobel prize in
chemistry, awarded to Israeli biochemist Aaron Ciechanover. A wonderful
interview entitled “JCI’s Conversations with Giants in Medicine: Aaron
Ciechanover” provides excellent insight into the workings of science at this
level. The passion, strategy, serendipity and humility required in scientifi c
research can be clearly appreciated in this presentation. Available via
YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1et3Lt_ikc. - A similar approach is taken by John Polkinghorne (2010, 101), starting
with Romans 8:19–23 as a biblical foundation. - Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, http://www.
darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2814.xml. - Margaret McFall-Ngai, et al., Animals in a bacterial world, a new impera-
tive for the life sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
110(9) (2013): 3229–3236. It would be diffi cult to overstate the impor-
tance of this paper to both the future of the life sciences and the faith-
biology dialogue. The emerging wealth of data on bacteria-animal (and
bacteria-plant) associations is profound in its implications. How this ties in
with spirit, transcendence, supervention, etc., will be equally profound. We
are not just us, we are inextricably linked to other living things as well—
way beyond the standard ecological argument. Our associations with bac-
teria, at least, means we are necessarily united with our symbionts.
Theologians who have not yet come to grips with the new- synthesis in
evolutionary biology will soon be hit by a revised new-synthesis. This will
not replace what we already know, but it will show there is much more to
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