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In Friend of Science, Friend of Faith, geologist Gregg Davidson explains how he maintains a simultaneous commitment to the Christian church and the academic science community. If those overlapping fellowships seem unremarkable to you, you may not find anything particularly new here although you may appreciate the opportunity to get to know Davidson and his take on the matters at hand. Although wide-ranging, the book is not a survey of the entire landscape of Christian approaches to science. Rather, Davidson gives his answers to typical questions about how and why a Christian can affirm Big Bang cosmology, an ancient Earth and common ancestry of all living organisms–questions he has evidently fielded many times from students and presumably colleagues and fellow believers as well. If you or someone you know is coming to such questions for the first time or curious about the perspective of a scientist with a career in a relevant field and experience in the broader conversation, this is a reasonable introduction with a couple of caveats.
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