Dear Todd, I was pleased to read your book, The Quest: Exploring Creation’s Hardest Problems. Indeed, I enjoyed it so much I read it twice. Young age creationism books abound in today’s evangelical world, however The Quest is different than anything I’ve ever seen. It is a frank discussion of the challenges facing the young…

Writing also on behalf of Peter Rasor, I want to thank Hans Madueme and the editors of Sapientia for hosting this symposium on Controversy of the Ages: Why Christians Should Not Divide over the Age of the Earth (henceforth, Controversy). I especially want to thank the reviewers for helping me see ways a revised Controversy…

This book examines the way evangelicals handle science-theology conflicts and read Scripture in light thereof. It claims the “battle” between science and theology has been oversimplified and in some arenas misreported. By laying out the record, we get a fresh look at the age of the earth controversy. However, the work does more than this….

The philosopher Alvin Plantinga argued in his book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, religion, and naturalism (Oxford University Press, 2011), the central thesis: “There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.” Now, Plantinga wrote about “theistic religion,” but his main…