"Genesis Foundations"

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Genesis Foundations was a series first published in The Christadelphian Magazine in 2015, also available in an electronic edition.

Chapters

1 – Creation: A sense of immediacy

by Bro Sid Levett

2 – The power of God’s wisdom in creation

by Bro Allan Harrison

3 – I believe in creation because . . . 

by Bro Robert Talbot

4 – Halting between two opinions

by Bro John M. Hellawell

5 – Evolution, education and the believer

by Bro Andrew Godber

6 – The way God works

by Bro John Morris

7 – Genesis in all the scriptures

by Bro Peter Watkins

8 – Creation or Evolution – the integrity and truth of scripture

by Bro Stephen Palmer

9 – Creation or Evolution – debating with evolutionists

by Bro Stephen Palmer
See Qms:The Great Creation Vs Evolution Debate for a link to Bro Palmer's lectures (not actually a debate) published on Youtube, and also some brief extracts from transcripts of the lectures.

10 – Creation or Evolution – implications for the atonement

by Bro Stephen Palmer See Romans 5:12

11 – The Genesis account of Creation – seeing God’s signature

by Bro John Pople

12 – “And God said . . . ”

by Bro Andrew Bramhill
Brief extract and critique at Qms:Objections to Science itself#changing

Evolutionary Creationist Response

Bro Ken Gilmore responded at length from an "Evolutionary Creationist" point of view on his blog Evolutionary Creationism: A Christadelphian Perspective.

Chapter Response
1 – Creation: A sense of immediacy Part 1
2 – The power of God’s wisdom in creation Part 2
3 – I believe in creation because . . .  Part 3
4 – Halting between two opinions Part 4
5 – Evolution, education and the believer Part 5
12 – “And God said . . . ” Part 6a — Genesis 1 is not primarily about material origins

Part 6b — Divine Agency and the mechanism of creation
Part 6c — Evolution does not threaten inspiration
Part 6d — Death and mortality are not the same thing
Part 6eRomans 5:12 does not demand monogenesis
Part 6f — Our theology is not contingent on monogenism
Part 6g — Fideism and its threat to our community