The God of Monkey Science

People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World

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Pub Date Oct 10 2023 | Archive Date Mar 24 2024

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How to hold true to your faith and embrace modern science

Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.

As the follow-up to Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?, this lively volume covers evolution as well as the coronavirus pandemic, vaccines, climate change, and the frontiers of genetic research. Ray explains the facts accessibly and with verve. Along the way, she vividly narrates the scientific achievements—and political and religious drama—that got us to where we are today.

Ultimately, Ray calls for evangelicals to speak to science, rather than deny it. We need Christian ethics now more than ever to determine how best to act in light of current scientific data and for love of neighbor. If you’re afraid of science hurting your faith, this book will show you how to be true to both.

Table of Contents

           1. The Playbook

           2. Science and the Evangelicals

           3. Who Do You Trust?

           4. Science Literacy in a Time of COVID

           5. Faith Over Fear: Evangelicals in a Pandemic

           6. Life in the Bubble

           7. You and Me Against the World

           8. They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Constitutional Rights

           9. Anthony Fauci Hates Puppies

           10. The Earth Is Running a Fever

           11. Hello Dolly! The Future Is Now

           12. People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World

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How to hold true to your faith and embrace modern science

Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But...


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ISBN 9780802883193
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PAGES 248

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