Abstract
This book popularizes world views as consisting of answers to ultimate questions and encourages Christians to engage culture in the battle of world views. Chapters 5-9 primarily discuss cosmology and evolution; chapter 40 discusses the Christian origins of science. Colson and Pearcey are to be commended for showing the role of science in contemporary world views and the functioning of theism in the scientific revolution. It is regrettable, though, that the citations on Christian origins of science constitute a narrow slice of a broader historiographical literature, as adherence to positivistic readings in Pearcey's publication with Thaxton of The Soul of Science (sections of which reappear here) was critiqued earlier [Sara Miles, Christian Scholar Review XXIV (1995) 496-8]. A number of other science problems hamper the book's achieving its goal; in most cases, their thesis remains defensible, but many of the arguments are too simplistic.