Howard J. Van Till

Published in 1988, there’s no doubt that this intriguing book should be out of date by now. Yet it reads with the immediacy of modern debate, and details very clearly the difference between the realms of faith and science. Creation science and evolunionism (perhaps scientism today) are both tested against the requirements of scientific relevance and rigor, and both found wanting. Clear examples of scientific and unscientific arguments are compared and contrasted. And the (possible) fact that those arguments are out of date is quickly irrelevant in the excitement of seeing how discoveries are bent, misapplied or misunderstood to lend apparent strength to preconceived arguments. Most scary to me were examples from creation science textbooks that might have been (might be?) used in school. And most powerful was the reminder that scientific “laws” are not instructions that must be followed, but rather descriptions of how things seem to work. I really enjoyed this book and would love to find an updated version of it.

Disclosure: I found it in a sale at church.… (meer)