Overview
New College Postgraduate Village is pleased to launch a book by Michael D. Russell entitled A Timeline Of Origins: Toward Better Integration Of The Bible And Science.
Particularly since the nineteenth century and Charles Darwin, those with a high view of Scripture have struggled to integrate the Bible’s teachings on human origins with the mainstream scientific consensus. By positing a fundamental physical divide between the “once-cursed world” of Adam and Eve and the “twice-cursed world” of Cain's banishment, the book opens the door to a reexamination of the biblical origins story. This includes the possibility that the once-cursed world of Adam, Methuselah, and Noah was the one deluged, rather than our twice-cursed world, providing answers to longstanding questions about the Flood and other aspects of the story.
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Event Program:
6:00pm Canapes & Drinks Served
6:30pm Book Launch Commences
7:30pm Book Signing
51 The Speakers
Michael Russell
Michael D. Russell is the senior minister of St. George’s Anglican Church, Magill, Adelaide, and author of Seeing Good, Doing Evil: The Limits Of Moral Ignorance (2020).
Dr Lewis Jones
Dr Lewis Jones is a Fellow of ISCAST and is Director of The Simeon Network, the postgraduate and academic arm of AFES (the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students). Lewis earned his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina before moving to Australia for his first postdoctoral research position at the University of New South Wales. He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Divinity at Moore Theological College. He is now a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee at UNSW, a member of the Gospel, Society & Culture Committee of the Presbyterian Assembly of New South Wales, and attends Randwick Presbyterian Church with his wife Jenny and their three children.
What Is CASE?
The Centre for Christian Apologetics, Scholarship and Education was established as a ministry of New College in 2002 by Prof Trevor Cairney. The CASE Centre aims to provide Christian commentary on social, intellectual and academic issues, and engage people of all persuasions in debate and discussion concerning contemporary issues of broad interest. It does this through the CASE website, the Case Quarterly publication, regular comment by our expert columnists, in-depth articles by local and international authors, occasional seminars, conferences, and the JustInCase blog.
The CASE Centre reaches well beyond traditional ‘defence’ apologetics, and seeks to encourage people to consider the claims of Christianity and bring a biblical perspective to all of life. It does this in many ways:
- Providing Christian comment on areas of popular and intellectual culture (e.g. music, art, literature, history, science, philosophy, anthropology)
- Encouraging Christians to live thoughtfully in the way they approach day-to-day life (e.g. work, money, family, social justice)
- Helping people understand and respond to direct challenges to Christianity (e.g. New Atheism, scientism, the problem of evil, and historical challenges)
- Providing Christian comment on societal trends (e.g. new technology, globalisation, climate change, changing families)
- Exploring potential ethical conflicts between Christianity and the world (e.g. euthanasia, sexuality & gender, consumerism)
- Encouraging Christians to engage the non-Christian world with faithfulness, integrity and understanding.
Commendations Of The Book:
Early Genesis contains a compelling explanation of our conflicted humanity within a timeline that seems at odds with archaeological records: a time widely acknowledged as of significant change in both the environment and human communities. Michael Russell highlights the tensions between the Bible, archaeology, and contemporary literature from which he explores a possible reconciliation. I commend Michael’s forthright approach to those seeking answers in the contested space of human identity and origins.
Dr Bill Peirson,
Master of New College, UNSW
Plausibility achieved! … This refreshing combination of a high view of Scripture, and acceptance of mainstream science, and a dogged and transparent attention to the details of the biblical text will make this book both productive and discomforting for nearly everyone who reads it!
Lewis Jones,
Director of The Simeon Network
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