Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?

The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit

By: Janet Kellogg Ray

Narrated by: Sheri Beth Dusek

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

A significant number of Americans, especially evangelical Christians, believe Earth and humankind were created in their present form sometime in the last 10,000 years or so - the rationale being that this is (presumably) the story told in the book of Genesis. Within that group, any threatening scientific evidence that suggests otherwise is rejected or, when possible, retrofitted into a creationist worldview. But can this uncomfortable blend of biblical literalism and pseudoscience hold up under scrutiny? Is it tenable to believe that the Grand Canyon was formed not millions of years ago by gradual erosion but merely thousands of years ago by the Great Flood? Were there really baby dinosaurs with Noah on his ark?

Janet Kellogg Ray, a science educator who grew up a creationist, doesn’t want other Christians to have to do the exhausting mental gymnastics she did earlier in her life. Working through the findings of a range of fields including geology, paleontology, and biology, she shows how a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis simply doesn’t mesh with what we know to be reality. But as someone who remains a committed Christian, Ray also shows how an acceptance of the theory of evolution is not necessarily an acceptance of atheism, and how God can still be responsible for having created the world, even if it wasn’t in a single, momentary, miraculous event.

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Challenging

The Church of today needs to seriously consider the principles reviewed in this book if it is to stay relevant to a world that is in desperate need of the hope of Jesus Christ. Is our hold on the literal words of Genesis building an insurmountable wall for anyone seeking truth?
Great examination of a vastly misunderstood, but overly argued topic.

This Creationist Empathizes

I'm really grateful for this perspective. I do know that it takes a lot for someone to change their mind. I'm not sure how much progress this book makes in changing my mind and believing in stuff like evolution and an old Earth but I do know that it has helped me empathize with some of my fellow Christians who do believe in evolution or I should say accept evolution. I started this book knowing that this is a topic that Christians need to be able to talk about no matter what camp they're in and I have had a fair amount of my knowledge come from a single source in Kent Hovind and I'm really grateful my campus minister wanted us to go through this book here at the U of A.

Thorough but accessible

Thorough, but accessible. Covers the evolution argument extremely well. Goes through creationism, intelligent design and theistic creationism and explains each and their arguments and then goes through the science. A great read for a Christian struggling with reconciling faith and science.

Easy read, very informative

I had heard much of this information in the past, but this book was very completely and easy to read. I will always recommend it as the first resource for Christians considering evolution for the first time. While clear in its disagreement with young earth creationists it does not shame or degrade them. Overall it presents an excellent case for why evolution is true and can be embraced by Christian’s.