Below are links to various resources from Prof John Walton’s lecture ‘Forbidden Science and the Controversy over Origins‘, held at the Crieff Adventist Church on 11 November 2009.

MP3 files

• The lecture, ‘Forbidden Science‘ (14MB, 58min)
• The question and answer session following the lecture (5MB, 22min)

Presentation

• The PowerPoint used during the lecture (23MB)

John Walton has also provided us with a suggested reading list.

Science, Philosophy & Intelligent Design

• Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin on Trial, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, 1993.
• Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box, The Free Press, New York, 1996.
• William A. Dembski, The Design Inference, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
• Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution, Regnery, Washington, 2000.
• Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma, Penguin Books, London, 2007.
• John Lennox, God’s Undertaker, Has Science Buried God, Lion Books, Oxford, 2007.
• Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion, SPCK, London, 2007.
• Thomas Crean, A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins, Family Publications, Oxford, 2007.
• John Cornwell, Darwin’s Angel, Profile Books, London, 2007.
• David Robertson, The Dawkins Letters, Christian Focus Publications, Fearn, 2007.
• Anthony Flew with Roy A. Varghese. There is a God, HarperCollins, New York, 2007.
• M. Beauregard and Denise O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, HarperOne, New York, 2007.
• S. C. Meyer, S. Minnich, J. Moneymaker and Ralph Seelke, Explore Evolution; the Arguments for and Against Neo-Darwinism, Hill House, Melbourne, 2007.
• Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution, Free Press, New York, 2007.
• Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God, Lion, Oxford, 2008.
• S. C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell, DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, HarperOne, 2009.
• Norman C. Nevin, editor, Should Christians Embrace Evolution, IVP, 2009.

Scriptural Reliability

• F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents; Are They Reliable?, 6^th Ed., IVP, Downers Grove, 1981.
• I. Provan, V. P. Long and T. Longman II, A Biblical History of Israel, WJK, Louisville, 2003.
• K. A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003.
• N. Thomas Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, SPCK, London, 2003.
• David N. Marshall, The Battle For the Bible, Autumn House, 2004.
• James H. Charlesworth, editor, Jesus and Archaeology, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2006.
• Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2006.
• Paul R. Eddy and Gregory Boyd: The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition, Baker Academic, 2007.

New Atheist and Theistic Evolutionist Books

• Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Books, London, 2006.
• Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, Bantam, 2009.
• Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Atlantic Books, 2008.
• Sam Harris: Letter to a Christian Nation, Bantam, 2007.
• Daniel Dennett: Breaking the Spell; Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Penguin, 2007.
• Dennis Alexander, Creation or Evolution, Do We Have to Choose? Monarch, 2008.
• Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution is True, OUP, Oxford, 2009.