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CHAPTER 1. SCIENCE AND RELIGION
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The scope of this work
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| II. |
Religion and rationality
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| III. |
The inspiration of the Bible
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About the authorship of the book of Genesis
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Revelation and science
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Revelation and reason
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| VII. |
Religious authority and science
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CHAPTER 2. AN ABSURD ORDER OF CREATION – EFFECTS BEFORE CAUSES
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| I. |
God the Creator and the beginning of creation
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| II. |
Tohu vav bohu (Tohu Wabohu)
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| III. |
The primeval sea
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The creation of heavens
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| V. |
Creation out of nothing
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| VI. |
Creation of the earth and of the solar system
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Creation of light before the sun
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Creation of the stars, sun
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| IX. |
The two stories of creation
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| X. |
Other contradictions about the creation of plants
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| XI. |
More contradictions about the creation of animals
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| XII. |
The creation of man and woman
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| XIII. |
Satan’s revolt and humankind’s Fall
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Cain and Abel, a dramatic story
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The problem of incest in the Bible
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| XVI. |
The sons of God
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| XVII. |
God changing His mind
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| XVIII. |
The two stories of the Flood
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| XIX. |
The Tower of Babel
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CHAPTER 3. THEOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES
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Introduction to this chapter |
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The first theological consequence
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The problem of the original sin
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The problem of evil in the world
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Eve and the statute of women in society
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Death, immortality, and redemption
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The image of God in the Bible
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| VIII. |
The problem of eternal hell
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| XIX. |
My personal view on creation
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CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSIONS
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RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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