Reading List

SCIENCE: GENERAL

Bryson, Bill – A Short History of Nearly Everything, Black Swan Books, 2004
Lovelock, James – Gaia : A New Look At Life On Earth, Oxford University Press, 1995
Moore, Pete - The Great Ideas That Shaped Our World, Friedman/Fairfax, 2002
Polkinghorne, John – Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2002

THE COSMOS

Cox and Cohen – Wonders of the Universe, HarperCollins, 2011
Davies, Paul – The Goldilocks Enigma, Penguin, 2006
Davies, Paul – The Mind Of God: Science & The Search For Ultimate Meaning, Penguin, 1992
Gingerich, Owen – God’s Universe, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
Rees, Martin – Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe, Phoenix, 2000
Williams and Hartnett – Dismantling the Big Bang, Master Books, 2005

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE – Understanding Evolution

Alexander, Denis – Creation or Evolution: Do we have to choose? Monarch Books 2008
Dawkins, Richard – The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1989
Dawkins, Richard – The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam Press, 2009
Dennett, Daniel – Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Simon and Schuster, 1995
Miller, Kenneth – Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, Harper Perennial, 2007
Ruse, Michael – The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Harvard University Press, 2005
Ruse, Michael – Can A Darwinian Be A Christian? – Cambridge University Press, 2000
Wilson, David Sloan – Evolution for Everyone, Bantam Dell, 2007

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE – Querying Evolution

Behe, Michael – The Edge of Evolution: The Search For The Limits of Darwinism, Free Press 2007
Dembski, William – No Free Lunch, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007
Denton, Michael – Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, Adler and Adler, 1986
Findlay, Lloyd, Pattemore, Swift - Debating Darwin: Two Debates – Is Darwinism True and Does it Matter? Paternoster, 2009
Fuller, Steve – Dissent over Descent, Icon Books, 2008
Myer, Stephen – Signature In The Cell, HarperOne, 2009
Swift, David – Evolution Under The Microscope, Leighton 2002

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE – Theology and Evolution

Barton & Wilkinson – Reading Genesis after Darwin, Oxford University Press 2009
Berry & Noble – Darwin, Creation and The Fall: Theological Challenges, Apollos, 2009
Lennox, John – Seven Days that Divide the World, Zondervan, 2011
McIntosh, Andy – Genesis For Today, Day One Publications, 1997
Parker, Andrew – The Genesis Enigma: Why the Bible is Scientifically Accurate, Doubleday, 2009
Wilkinson, David – The Message Of Creation, Intervarsity Press , 2002

BRAIN, MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Beauregard and O’Leary – The Spiritual Brain, Harper One, 2007
Dennett, Daniel – Consciousness Explained, Back Bay Books, 1991
Newberg, Andrew – Why We Believe What We Believe, Free Press, 2006
O’Shea, Michael – The Brain: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2005
Pinker, Steven – How The Mind Works, Penguin 1997
Piper, Don – 90 Minutes In Heaven, Revell, 2004
Schwartz and Begley – The Mind and the Brain, Harper, 2002

SCIENCE AND GOD: GENERAL

Alexander, Denis – Rebuilding The Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century, Lion, 2001
Alexander and White – Beyond Belief: Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges, Lion, 2004
Andrews, Edgar – Who Made God? EP Books, 2009
Blanchard, John – Does God Believe in Atheists? Evangelical Press, 2000
Collins, Francis – The Language of God, Free Press ,2006
Dawkins, Richard – The God Delusion, Black Swan Books, 2006
D’Souza, Dinesh – What’s So Great About Christianity, Regnery Publishing, 2007
Gibberson & Collins – The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions, Intervarsity Press, 2011
Harris, Sam – The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, Simon and Schuster, 2006
Harris, Sam – Letter To A Christian Nation, Bantam Press, 2007
Hitchens, Christopher – God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion, Atlantic Books, 2007
Houghton, John – The Search For God: Can Science Help? John Ray Initiative, 2007
Keller, Timothy - The Reason for God, Dutton, 2008
Lennox, John – God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Lion, 2007
Lennox, John – God and Stephen Hawking, Lion, 2010
Lennox, John – Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target, Lion, 2011
McGrath, Alister – Dawkins’ God, Blackwell, 2005
McGrath, Alister – Surprised by Meaning, Westminster John Knox Press, 2011
McGrath, Alister – Why God Won’t Go Away: Engaging With The New Atheism, SPCK, 2011
Newberg, Andrew – Why God Won’t Go Away – Random House, 2001
Polkinghorne and Beale – Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses To Questions about God, Science and Belief – Westminster John Knox Press, 2009
Robertson, David - The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths,Christian Focus, 2007
Ward, Keith – The Big Questions In Science and Religion, Templeton Foundation Press, 2008
Ward , Keith – Why There Almost Certainly Is A God, Lion, 2008
Williams, Peter S – A Sceptic’s Guide to Atheism, Paternoster, 2009

CHRISTIANITY

Colson, Charles – The Faith, Zondervan, 2008
Colson and Pearcey – How Now Shall We Live? Tyndale House, 1999
Lewis, C S – Mere Christianity, Collins, 1952
Stott, John – Basic Christianity – Intervarsity Press, 1958