Notes

1. William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 72.

2. Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 88 – 89.

3. Ibid., 14.

4. Kurt P. Wise, Faith, Form, and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms about Creation and the Age of the Universe (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2002).

5. Kurt P. Wise, “Geology,” In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (Green Forest, Ariz.: John F. Ashton, 2000), 353.

6. Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict (San Bernardino, Calif.: Here’s Life, 2004), 10.

7. David Noebel, Understanding the Times (Manitou Springs, Colo.: Summit, 1991), 841.

8. Conversations with Andy represent a composite of several conversations with more than one individual.

9. Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Wikisource, the Free Library, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sinners_in_the_Hands_of_an_Angry_God (accessed September 2, 2009).

10. Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies (New York: Anchor, 2000), 3.

11. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 64.

12. N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope (New York: HarperOne, 2008), 18 – 19.

13. Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 43.

14. Saint Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, translated and annotated by John Hammond Taylor, S.J. (New York: Newman, 1982), 1:41.

15. Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam A. H. H.,” Wikisource, the Free Library, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_Memoriam_A._H._H. (accessed September 2, 2009).

16. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1986), 34.

17. Alan Greene, “Why Children Ask ‘Why,’ ” DrGreene.com, March 13, 2000: http://www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=564 (accessed September 2, 2009).