(short) Book Review: A book that may be of some interest....
(Review by Amazon)
Many of the early scientific giants Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo were believers in God and didn t see their work denying faith. Newton believed that the universe bespeaks an all-powerful Creator.
Why, then, the irresistible lure among so many Christians to
baptize the devil by seeking to harmonize evolution with Scripture? Though we can t know individual motives, the overarching answer is tied to the contemporary belief that because science says evolution is true it must be. After all, It s science!
But if science is so good at reaching truth, why does the truth change so often? If the historical landscape is littered with discarded theological ideas, wrote Gary Ferngren, it is equally littered with discarded scientific ones. Why do the findings of science, the results of the scientific method, often contradict each other?
Baptizing the Devil seeks to show this capitulation is not just unnecessary but misguided, another unfortunate example of well-meaning Christians compromising their faith to the prevailing culture. Baptizing the Devil hopes to free people from the knee-jerk reaction that the only logical and rational reaction to the phrase It s science! is to surrender one s beliefs, even religious ones, to it. Goldstein show just how limited those insights are and why Christians shouldn t compromise such a foundational belief as origins, just because science teaches something contrary.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:3
(Review by Amazon)
Baptizing the Devil
by Clifford Goldstein
256 pages Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing Association
Many of the early scientific giants Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo were believers in God and didn t see their work denying faith. Newton believed that the universe bespeaks an all-powerful Creator.
Why, then, the irresistible lure among so many Christians to
But if science is so good at reaching truth, why does the truth change so often? If the historical landscape is littered with discarded theological ideas, wrote Gary Ferngren, it is equally littered with discarded scientific ones. Why do the findings of science, the results of the scientific method, often contradict each other?
Baptizing the Devil seeks to show this capitulation is not just unnecessary but misguided, another unfortunate example of well-meaning Christians compromising their faith to the prevailing culture. Baptizing the Devil hopes to free people from the knee-jerk reaction that the only logical and rational reaction to the phrase It s science! is to surrender one s beliefs, even religious ones, to it. Goldstein show just how limited those insights are and why Christians shouldn t compromise such a foundational belief as origins, just because science teaches something contrary.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:3
