A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CREATION
By Chris Pegington
Bryntirion Press. 84 pages. £4.95
ISBN 978-1-85049-229-0
‘The conclusions we arrive at, and the interpretation of the evidence available to us to study, will be different depending on the prior assumptions we bring to the study’ (italics mine).
In this concluding remark at the end of chapter one, Chris Pegington sums up for the reader the main thrust of his short book, namely that the evolutionary model for the existence of the universe is based on a tripartite a priori assumption: a) the involvement of a divine being in the existence of the universe ‘cannot be regarded as science at all’; b) naturalism — that all of the universe, including the origin and development of life, can be explained by natural processes; c) uniformitarianism — that we can explain what has happened in the past on the basis of what is happening in the present.
