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DO I REALLY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE? In this ground-breaking work, Old Testament scholar John Sailhamer shines new light on the opening chapters of the Bible, revealing how centuries-old misunderstandings have continued to shape popular biblical interpretation as well as greatly contributing to unnecessary conflicts between the Bible and science. Pointing to answers found in the first two chapters of Genesis, Sailhamer presents a credible, scripturally supported, and much-needed explanation that opens the door to reconciliation of biblical and scientific world views. No matter what your position or background, you will be challenged to test your understanding of the Bible s critical opening sentences and reexamine your beliefs about the creation of the world through Genesis Unbound.
- Sales Rank: #200722 in Books
- Published on: 2011-03-28
- Released on: 2011-03-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
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- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
About the Author
Dr. John Sailhamer has served on the translation committees for two versions of the Book of Genesis. He holds a Ph.D. in Semitics from UCLA and a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Sailhamer has taught at Bethel Seminary and Philadelphia College of Bible, and has served as professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He was scholar in residence at Northwestern College in Roseville, Minnesota and concurrently professor of Old Testament at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Most recently, he has taught Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and then at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern California campus in Brea. He is the author of over a dozen books, the last being the Meaning of the Pentateuch.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
You Don't Have to Choose Between AIG and RTB: There's a Better Way
By Michael A. Taylor
Hello,
Others have already done a fine job summarizing Sailhamer's thesis, so I won't rehash that too much here. What I want to focus on instead is the virtue of this book, **if its thesis is true.** So if you order this (which I highly recommend) and read it (yes, books that you order also have to be read and not just put in piles or on shelves), please read it carefully, but also with an awareness of the context in which we find ourselves today:
1. A broad scientific consensus that some form of macro evolution is true.
2. A growing number of "maverick" scientists (Christian and non-Christian) who are calling into question that consensus.
3. Christian "cottage industries" with vested interest in maintaining and "selling" their views. Here I am speaking primarily of two camps: The Young-Earth Creationist Camp represented by Answers in Genesis. And Old-Earth Day-Age Creationists represented by Reasons to Believe.
4. You can pretty much draw a line in the sand between these two camps. It seems to me that Ken Ham and AIG have cornered the market on home-schoolers and many others in the church who are convinced that a literal 7-day creation of the universe is so obviously the Biblical view that no other Christian hypothesis is going to get a fair hearing.
5. Then there are those who just know they can't put their head in the sand and pretend that the science doesn't say what it seems to be saying. Enter the various Old-Earth readings of scripture and their attempt to turn the word "day" in Genesis 1 into entire eons.
So how is Sailhamer's book a "termtium quid" worthy of our consideration? Let me list the ways:
1. You no longer have to choose between science and the Bible. You can affirm that God literally created in seven calendar days while simultaneously holding for an earth that is possibly billions of years old and an even older universe.
2. You can affirm with the young-earther that a "day" in Genesis 1 is just a "day," not an entire "age."
3. You can affirm with the old-earther that "in the beginning" God created the entire universe and that this likely took place some 14 billion years ago according to present big-bang cosmology.
4. You can be "open-but-cautious" to macro-evolutionary theory, but are probably better off rejecting it on scientific rather than biblical grounds. In other words, you can take an aposteriori approach rather than an apriori approach, which is far more satisfying. In yet other words, if the theory of evolution that is being taught in our schools is wrong, it's wrong because first and foremost it's bad science and not only bad theology. Alternatively, if the best scientific evidence suggests the probability of macro-evolution, then the Bible can still accommodate this up to a point. Sailhamer would say that it all happened in that indeterminate time called "the beginning."
5. But...and this is a huge but....Genesis does affirm that man is a special creation of God that did not "evolve" organically from a biological ancestor. Happily, this accords with the scientific record as well, where homo sapiens sapiens seems to rather "suddenly" appear on the scene with no known predecessor.
Finally, I want to mention AIG's critique of Genesis Unbound, which you may or not be aware of. It's called "Unbinding the Rules" and you can easily find that with a search engine.
Unfortunately it is a very one-sided misrepresentation of Sailhamer's thesis which is frankly unworthy of the name "Christian." I invite you to read my personal point-by-point refutation of AIG's critique here at my blog. You can find that by searching for Fallibility and my article entitled "A Rebuttal of AIG's Critique of Genesis Unbound."
Now I'm not saying everything in Genesis Unbound is Gospel. I'm just saying that Sailhamer's thesis deserves a fair hearing and that **if true** a number of contemporary problematics are easily resolved. So please read the book with an open mind and don't take AIG's take on it as Gospel. (Remember, AIG has its own self-interest in mind and that is to keep the church dependent upon its materials for its view of creation).
As for me and my house (educated thinkers who are also Christian), we've found in Sailhamer's book a great talking piece with our atheist and unbelieving friends that doesn't go the way of Ken Ham as in his recent (Feb, 2014) debate with Bill Nye the Science Guy (which by most accounts went poorly for Ham).
Here is my one big critique: This book is crying out for an index, which is why I'm giving 4 rather than 5 stars. Perhaps in a future edition?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Genesis Unbound for a college geology major and a practicing physician
By Geology major/practicing physician
I was raised in a young earth, 7 day creation church and home, went on to state university and got a degree in geology. As you might imagine, the evolutionary aspects of modern geology bothered me. Over the years I read everything I could to help me reconcile things. I have always "known" that God did create all things, but it never made sense to me that "there was evening and morning, day 1" but the sun was not "created" until day 4. Hugh Ross got my attention with his views but they never satisfied as I felt he was trying to make the bible fit science. Then John Sailhammer came along with his "Genesis Unbound." For the first time I felt that someone really understood and explained what the bible actually said and not what we wanted it to say, and did it in a non-judgmental manner allowing other viewpoints to exist without ridiculing them. To understand the idea that Genesis 1:1 was creation and not the title of the chapter, and then the assigning of function, meaning and purpose of creation during those 6 creative days was a substantial relief to me. I finally found an answer that satisfied my desire to stay faithful to the bible and to lend credence to what true science discovered. Sailhammer also points out that the original Hebrew wording does not specify either a young or old earth, it just doesn't address time. After geology, I went on to study medicine and now, decades later-- after college that is , practicing ER medicine. I am reading Sailhammer's book again to further cement his explanations/interpretations into my brain to better understand them. It's even better the second time around! This book, to me, makes the most sense. The young earth creationists that insist that if you hold to any other view then you are committing heresy is ridiculous, and divisive at best. This book satisfies the scientist in me and the very, very amateur theologian in me quite nicely. You will come away from this feeling as though you held true to God's word, but with a realization that you let God's word speak for itself, and not how we want it to sound in the 21st century with evolutionists deriding creationists for being emotionally attached to "myth." True science never disagrees with God, and His word doesn't either. So this is a very nice fusion of the true facts of science and the Bible. Sailhammer actually does not address the science of it all, but true science, the facts anyway, are what they are. It is the conclusions as to why and how the facts came to be where we run into crazy ideas. This book is definitely worth the time and money. Get it, and get a second copy if you want others to read it too, don't want to lose your copy!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic book. Easy read on a complex thought
By Dave
Fantastic book. Easy read on a complex thought. I have read much on this topic and I believe that Hebrew scholars, and those who love the context of the land and the people of Israel, tend to be the most thorough and convincing on this discussion. Obviously there is much debate - even among Christian theologians - about this topic and I love the clear and precise way that Sailhamer presents his position. He has also presented much history to support what may appear to many as a new idea, yet in fact is not new at all.
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