Dr Tatha Wiley is the author of Original Sin: Origins, Developments, Contemporary Meaning and Paul and the Gentile Women: Reframing Galatians. She has edited the volume Thinking of Christ: Proclamation, Explanation, Meaning and the series Engaging Theology: Catholic Perspectives, and teaches theology at the University of St. Thomas and the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota.

'It will surprise those who assume that creationism is rooted in Christian tradition, and it will challenge those who believe that the biblical narrative is hopelessly at odds with modern science.' Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University, author of 'Finding Darwin's God'

• Introduction 1. The Bible and Creation 2. The Meaning of Creation 3. Method, Truth and Evolutionary Science4. Catholics and the Theory of Evolution 5. Creationism in the Public Arena 6. Fundamentalist Anxiety