My friend, also a professor with whom I took classes, Dr. Denis O. Lamoureux has finally had his book — Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution— published. I helped out with this tome in my own little way, as I was one of the committee of students he put together to proof-read a draft copy, and I also supplied some artwork for it after a previous arrangement fell through.

It's an important work, for one simple reason: it demonstrates that faith and reason, science and Religion, can go hand in hand without any kind of conflict. That may sound pedantic to say…but there aren't many authors that attempt to seamlessly bridge Christian Theology, as it pertains to human origins, with the theory of evolution without needing to make use of some kind of caveat.

Denis doesn't do that. He doesn't look at the dialogue between "evolution" and "creation" as one that must inherently be a debate. Instead, he argues that there can be — and is — an intimate connection between the Book of God's Words (the Bible, faith) and the Book of God's Works (science). Evolutionary creationism, then, is the position which asserts that God — Father, Son, and Spirit — created life here (and possibly elsewhere in the Universe; let's face it, we don't know) through "an ordained, sustained evolutionary process."

It's a volatile work, to be sure, especially given that Denis is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society (though for how long is, perhaps, something to be debated). But it's also a necessary work, and I encourage the theologically and/or scientifically minded Reader to buy a copy and give it a read.

The book can be purchased online, either through Amazon.com or through the publisher, Wipf and Stock. It may also be available in various bookstores.

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"Dr. Denis O. Lamoureux is Associate Professor of Science and Religion at St. Joseph's College, part of the University of Alberta. He holds three doctoral degrees — in dentistry, theology, and biology. He co-authored, with Philip E. Johnson, Darwinism Defeated? The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Origins (1999). Lamoureux is a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, a member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation, and a member of the Evangelical Theological Society."