TY - BOOK AU - Ritland,Richard M. TI - A search for meaning in nature: a new look at creation and evolution AV - BL 240.2 .R55 1970 U1 - 215 PY - 1970///] CY - Mountain View, Calif. PB - Pacific Press Pub. Association KW - Religion and science N1 - Includes bibliographies; Contents; The pendulum swings -- The problem of knowing -- The origin of life -- ancient views -- What is life? -- Is divine creation of life necessary? -- Recent ideas on origin -- The crust of the earth -- designed for life? -- Boundless energy -- The record of past life -- Change or fixity -- Have animals and plants become more complex through the ages? -- Missing links in the chain of life -- Bias in the fossil record -- Catastrophes and the Uniformitarian hypothesis -- The recent past: giants -- fact and fancy -- Frozen mammoths -- Problems in determining the origin of man -- The "missing links" between man and ape -- Charles Darwin and the distribution of life -- The living world -- A Christian view of nature in a changing world ER -