Abstract
Wendell Bird is an attorney who played a central role in the Supreme Court case surrounding the Louisiana law requiring "balanced-treatment" of creation-science and evolution in public schools. In these two volumes, Bird reviews some of the implications of the Court's decision, including its definitions of science and religion as they relate to theories of origins in general and creationism and evolution in particular. The central purpose of the book seems to be to establish a non-religious theory of origins that is compatible with Christianity. Bird names this theory "the theory of abrupt appearance." The focus of Volume 1 is the scientific evidence concerning origins. Volume 2 addresses the legal definitions of science and religion, the relationship of the theories of abrupt appearance and evolution to these definitions, and the constitutionality of teaching both theories in the public schools.