Introduction / Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson -- How should one read the early chapters of Genesis? / Walter Moberly -- Genesis before Darwin : why Scripture needed liberating from science / Francis Watson -- The six days of creation according to the Greek Fathers / Andrew Louth -- The hermeneutics of reading Genesis after Darwin / Richard S. Briggs -- What difference did Darwin make? : the interpretation of Genesis in the nineteenth century / John Rogerson -- Genesis and the scientists : dissonance among the harmonizers / John Hedley Brooke -- Science and religion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape art / David Brown -- Reading Genesis 1-3 in the light of modern science / David Wilkinson -- All God's creatures : reading Genesis on human and nonhuman animals / David Clough -- Evolution and evil : the difference Darwinism makes in theology and spirituality / Jeff Astley -- "Male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27) : interpreting gender after Darwin / Stephen C. Barton -- Propriety and trespass : the drama of eating / Ellen F. Davis -- The plausibility of creationism : a sociological comment / Mathew Guest.
Summary:
First, the authors explore how the scriptures were interpreted before the time of Darwin. Part II presents essays on the real history of the Darwin controversies, exploding the myths about this period. The final chapter deals with the rise of creationism in its current social context.
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