A Book A Week #46-Why Are Scientists Turning to God?

I have read many, many books on the Creation/Evolution debate over the years.  While this book does a good job of defining terms, it does not make the open and shut case that it, and many other books on both sides of the issue, claims that it does.  It’s a good book, and it lays out some nice arguments, but I believe that these kinds of arguments are fundamentally presuppositional in nature.  That is, the best place to begin your discussion is with your groundwork beliefs about the *nature* of science and its role in determining reality.  The best place to start is not with facts and figures about the universe because, as the creationist like to argue about the evolutionists, the “facts” (be they tidbits about how the Earth is fine tuned to support life or fossils of long dead organisms) are not evidence.  They are data, and data must be interpreted.

Don’t get me wrong.  There’s some good tools here, but this is far from the only book you should read to try to convince a friend, professor, or stranger in the coffee shop that totally naturalistic evolution is fundamentally flawed (I chose my words carefully there, so if you’re tempted to send me a nasty email on either side of the issue, “read it again before you click send”).