Darwin’s Sandcastle

Why are brilliant and logical scientists not reasonable on the question of the ultimate cause of the unity, diversity, and complexity of life on Earth? We wrongly think that an accurate view of life’s origins can be deduced by science and logic alone apart from faith and humble submission to God’s Word. Without the light of God’s Word, unbelievers have built up an edifice, a theory of life’s origins known as Darwinian Evolution, which they believe is an impregnable fortress. In our Darwin-dominated society, blind chance, mutation, and natural selection have received most of the glory for the unity, diversity, and complexity of life on Earth. It’s about time this philosophy is seen for what it is: a sandcastle on the beach, in the face of the rising tide.

In thirteen short chapters, Gordon Wilson takes the reader through the reading of Genesis, radiometric dating, micro- and macroevolution, the fossil record, human origins, the origin of life, irreducible complexity, genetic entropy, created kinds, and predators and parasites after the Fall. Then he takes the questions that always come up: dinosaurs on the ark, soft tissue, plate tectonics, the ice age, distant starlight. The voice is conversational and often funny, thirty-six drawings and diagrams by Joey Nance carry the science, and the last chapter is on how creationists should disagree with one another.