Book Review: 40 Questions About Creation and Evolution

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Book Review: 40 Questions About Creation and Evolution by Kenneth D. Keathley and Mark F. Rooker

Today’s academic setting is dismissive of those that would question evolution as an established scientific fact. This is very unfortunate. If they could but give the other side a hearing, they would find beneficial information.

Most of the time the problem has been with authors that have a need to communicate on this topic to the masses that may not understand the scientific or biblical concepts behind the debate. Evolutionists dismiss anyone with a similar point of view.

I hope they give this book a chance. It is written at a more scholarly level, it contains hundreds of footnotes and it is respectful of opposing views. They engage the issues critically, biblically, and scientifically. The book has review questions at the end of each chapter, which should help the reader focus what they got out of the book in order to share with others (maybe in a series of church lectures?).

Some topics would have benefitted from illustrations to make the concepts clear; other than that, this is a much needed voice for today’s apologetic endeavors.

4/5 Stars

Disclosure: The book was received for free from Kregel book review program. The program does not require a positive review, only an unbiased one.

Book Review: The Henry Morris Study Bible

Subtitled: Apologetics Commentary and Explanatory Notes from the 'Father of Modern Creationism,' this is an impressive work considering it was done by a lone man, the famed founder of the Institute for Creation Research. Morris does his best to provide a literal interpretation of the Bible, defending  young earth creationism, while using the King James Version of the Bible (contrary to the modern trend of using anything but the KJV).

The Index to Major Topics in Annotations is quite helpful and the 22 Appendices treat relevant apologetic issues like "Science and the Scriptures," "The Universal Flood," "Fulfillment of Biblical Prophecies," and others. Students of the Bible and apologists will greatly benefit from reading and thinking through them.

The Bible has 2204 pages. Even then, the one complaint about this (and other Study Bibles) is the all too brief Concordance. The Bible one uses ends up being a constant companion and the one resource one turns to time and again. Not being able to find a verse one is looking for in the Concordance of a Study Bible is very frustrating.

I do recommend this Bible for anyone looking for a conservative source of Bible believing study notes. While the author does not share all my doctrinal convictions, his effort to be faithful to Scripture is noted.

Disclosure: The book was received for free from the publisher. The program does not require a positive review, only an honest one.