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Title: Schroeder offers up a smorgisborg of new ideas
Review: Previously I have read a few books on Intelligent Design which present you with the Chef's menu: a full meal is picked for you: take it all or leave it all. Schroeder's work is the opposite. He's throwing out intriguing and open-ended possibilities - you pick from the buffet what suites your fancy. Nothing feels cramed down your throat. I bought 5 copies of this book to share with friends because it has given me hope. It is bridging the decades old schisms in my mind left by my voracious appetite for scientific truth and my convictions about the authority of the Bible. His work achieves its magic by stretching the beliefs held on both extremes. This book will not satisfy black and white thinkers commited to either strict Biblical literalism or abiotic evolution. It is however a wonderful read for anyone caught in the middle who is left unfulfilled by either extreme.
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