Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition)

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition) | Nancy R. Pearcey | Behold the Truth!

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	Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition) Nancy R. Pearcey Crossway Books, 2005 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 78 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

About time to reframe the "debate"

Nancy Pearcey's easy-to-read book will tell people of faith, especially Christians, how to reframe the "debate" (as though it ever WAS a debate except in the minds of scientists) between science and faith vis a vis the origins of life. Pearcey goes into great and revealing detail about how people of faith automatically have their arguments about the origins of life disregarded as "values" instead of "facts". She does an excellent job of debunking the notion that evolution is fact-based, despite the general consensus of most scientists. (They are changing their minds in droves, by the way.)

Incidentally, she is not the first to tackle this problem of dismissing Creation as "faith" or "values" rather than scientific fact. Michael Behe and MANY other scientists have done an excellent job, including Ken Ham of answersingenesis.org and Dr. Kent Hovind of drdino.com. There, you will find extensive lists of scientists who believe in the Creation of the Bible or in Intelligent Design and can back up their beliefs with hard science. Nancy Pearcey describes Intelligent Design quite well, but necessarily on a superficial level. It is too complex for a book directed to the layperson, which "Total Truth" is.

The "editorial review" on Amazon laments that Pearcey doesn't give the "other side" of Intelligent Design from Christians. This criticism is not valid because the "other side" is ubiquitous and doesn't need its side addressed yet again in a book specifically designed to present the Christian side. It is we, the ID'ers and Creationists who need to know how to reframe the debate so as to logically and rationally debate evolutionists who claim that Creation belongs solely to the realm of faith or values. Pearcey tells the Believer how to do this and she does it very convincingly with reason and logic.

When you learn about the frauds and hoaxes plaguing the scientific community for over a hundred years of evolutionary teaching, you see that Darwinian evolution is indeed a religion not based upon anything reproduceable, scientific or legitimately deduced from what "evidence" does present. (Fossils, for example, are NOT "links" to previous species. All we know about a fossil is that the creature died. That is all.)

Evolution has never proved that any fossil is a link to another species. In other words, the Darwinian evolutionist has no evidence that man evolved from a lower animal, yet such things are still taught in schools as fact while disallowing anything which will go against their arguments.

Pearcey's book will educate the reader on how to engage the evolutionist in a rational discussion of why their theory is based upon little more than faith. Better still, it teaches the Christian or person of faith that there are facts to support Biblical creationism. What Pearcey does is to remove Creation from the realm of SOLELY faith and values to science and she does a fine job of it.

No one disputes "microevolution", that finch beaks change according to food supplies or that there are hundreds of different breeds of dogs. But they still remain finches or dogs. "Macroevolution" is where Darwinism, even from Darwin's own lips, breaks down. Macroevolution, the theory that all life evolved by chance over time from a single-celled animal, has not been proved. Not even close. Why? Because no links between species have ever been found. There are only huge gaps. There is no evidence for macroevolution. Yet the theory is accepted as fact, as much by faith as anything else.

The Bible's account of creation and the flood is as much a reasonable explanation of how the myriad life on earth came about than every other theory presented to date. Yet it is dismissed as "values" rather than science. There is no reason for this situation to remain as is. Pearcey's book explains why that is.

Highly recommended, especially for people new to Intelligent Design and to Christian apologetics.

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Behold the Truth!

Not only have I learned how to identify and confidently debunk competing worldviews, I got a great history lesson on Christianity in America! This is a great, thought provoking read for anyone who is concerned about the state of our society and culture today. This book gives us some great insight and tools towards equipping us to take a stand for TRUTH!!

Excellent

Even though its a little long winded, this is what everyone says it is. Comprehensive! But do we really need to know all this? Or, at best, couldn't this be summed up in about 100 or so pages less?

Well-rounded...

In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey takes to task the anti-intellectual tendencies of evangelicalism. Pointing to historic events, Pearcey identifies how and where evangelicals forfeited their worldview to the pressures of secular society. The forfeit thus complete, there was (and is) little left but emotion trumping any robust structure of reason.

Pearcey apparently has two goals of differing complexity. One, to eliminate the secular influences from the Christian worldview and, two, to utilize this reformed platform to compete with the other worldviews among us. Despite the ever-mounting challenges to these objectives, one eagerly rallies to the attempt to address the nihilistic despair of today's Western culture seemingly intent on it's path to oblivion.

Pearcey, borrowing admittedly and liberally from Francis Shaeffer, has crafted a comprehensive worldview tool that can inform Christians on many levels. Unfortunately, the scope of the book does not allow the desired detail on some areas of interest within the space available, but this barely detracts from it's worth. Total Truth is crucial reading and easily merits a rating of 4+ stars.

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Persuasive, to a point...

Very persuasive that Christians should not try to "secularize" their view of our society, and that the public sphere is in no way out of bounds for our religious beliefs, despite what has been drummed into our heads by secular media.

Less successful is her defense of Intelligent Design- wonderful as a religious belief, but calling it "science" doesn't neccessarily make it so. Fortunately, the ID movement has all but lost its steam (witness Kansas and Kentucky reversals). ID is simply not science, and Ms. Pearcey cannot effectively advance the idea that it is science... in the end, it is our Faith.

Overall though, a good read.

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