Digital Faith

God and Science

Here's a second and final post on Collins and Giberson's The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions (Intervarsity Press, 2011). I'll again pull a few examples from their question and answer discussion, here from the second half of the book.

Straight Answers to Gospel Questions: Evolution

Time to fire up the blog for a few posts on the latest entry in my Now Reading box, The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions (2011, InterVarsity Press). The authors are Karl W. Giberson and Francis S. Collins, accomplished scientists (a physicist and a geneticist, respectively) who have each previously authored their own excellent faith and science books. This one is written in a question and answer format and appears to be aimed at the basic Evangelical or conservative Christian believer who has not previously given much thought to faith and science issues but is now trying to reconcile conservative or even fundamentalist doctrines with modern science. As such, it is very well suited to most LDS readers, especially bright seminary or college students who have followed the CES curriculum but find that it leads them to a dead end. There are few LDS resources to recommend (LDS religion teachers and leaders generally can't even admit there is a faith and science problem), which is why I read and review helpful books by non-LDS authors.