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A friend and I are exchanging books, the better to expand one another's horizons.  In exchange for Snow Crash, I get to read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, and I can't say enough good things about it.  Bryson knows exactly how to combine basic concepts of how the world works with historical context; he spends as much time on ( Read more... )

I had no trouble simultaneously believing in God's creation of mankind and accepting the fact of the Big Bang, plate tectonics, and evolution by natural natural selection when I was a kid.  It wasn't for lack of education in either area; I knew my Scripture better at age fourteen than I do now, and I'd read anything I could get my little mitts on ( Read more... )