Creation and Double Chaos by Sjoerd L Bonting

Creation and Double Chaos by Sjoerd L Bonting

Scientist and theologian Sjoerd Bonting offers a new overarching framework for thinking about issues in religion and science. He looks at the creation controversy itself, including biblical perspectives, tradtional doctrines, and the particular potential contribution of chaos theory. Finally, Bonting extends this perspective, a combination of chaos theory and chaos theology he calls "double-chaos," into a framework that addresses traditional questions about evil, divine agency, soteriology, the understanding of disease, possible extraterrestrial life, and the future.

Sjoerd L. Bonting taught and researched biochemistry for thirty years at universities in the United States and the Netherlands and also worked at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda) and later for NASA. He is author of Chaos Theology: A Revised Creation Theology (Novalis, 2002).