I am loving this book.

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I really want to read this book!

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I've been wanting to take a look at that one, myself! Do you know how it compares to other books on the subject?

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One of the editors is Joseph A. Pipa

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Which is my prime motivation in wanting to read it!

Great book. Helped change my mind on the subject.

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Hopefully to a 6-day creation position!

You bet. See this thread.

Looks exceptional, thanks for bringing this to my/our attention.

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Randy,
What is the version of Hall's paper in the book? I did a bit of research work for him. Several versions of David's paper are online such as here.

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Buy it direct. The conference CDs of the conferences for the last 10 years is only $99. Contact the seminary and ask for the bookstore.

Honestly, I must say that I have used these books for all kinds of things - they are more relevant than alot of the conference material that is out there. For a small seminary, GPTS puts together some good conferences. And they are cheap too.

The best book I've used in the series is the one on Sanctification.

Chris.

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Chris,
It looks more like the revised one that the first one links to. But it is still a little different I think. It is outstanding and quite forceful in requiring those who wish to make the Divines say something that they didn't, fess up to wishful thinking or to produce better material that proves the Divines held to a long age day interpretation. Because of the challenges to his first paper, David Hall went back to search out the sources and they still come up short according to his revision which is evidently only an improvement upon his first paper.

I really appreciated seeing how Morton Smith put this in a historical perspective (per the denominations) in the first chapter of the book. I am still plowing my way through it slowly.

You want to know something. I am reading this book because of my son Joshua Caleb. He has been discussing this stuff with his teacher and class at School and confounding him. Josh had a test on evolution and flunked it because he wrote truthful answers to the questions. Boy is he in trouble now. NOT.

Josh has had to learn to be respectful. The teacher Mr. Steven's did try to pull one on the students by asking why would God create all the little insects and smaller life. Josh just replied, "because he wanted to." Simple answers for complex minds. I would have said something to the effect of God's Glory is revealed... yadda... yadda... yadda...... and they are a part of the food chain. Sometimes simple is good.

You have a good boy. Actually, I'm familiar with the research (see footnote 51 in the linked paper); but I had forgotten what transpired because I think David had an expanding set of papers originally as the researched advanced; and I wondered if he simply combined them. I guess I should buy the book.