To those struggling with issues of creation and evolution, it is a godsend. This wonderful book offers a refreshingly different model of respectful dialogue and a vision of what really matters in these discussions. In an increasingly polarized world, the Christian community often seems as riven with fractious debates as society at large. This is the authentic dialogue that our churches need today. This book shows the hard work needed to love one’s enemy and seek the unity of believers. They have opposing views on an issue that is deeply important to them, yet they choose to keep talking-because of Christ. Nowhere else will you read a conversation like this-an honest dialogue between two Christian biologists who disagree about evolution. Dockery, president, Trinity International University/Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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I learned much from Barrett, Wood, and Falk, and I am sure the same will be true for other readers as well as we all seek to learn how to maintain biblical conviction while practicing genuine kindness toward those with whom we have disagreements about the important theological and ethical issues of our day. Falk that results in helpful and constructive dialogue. In The Fool and the Heretic, Rob Barrett carefully guides an informed conversation between and among Todd Charles Wood and Darrell R.
This book shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more important, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God. Todd Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic.
To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant-a fool.
To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church.
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