Review: The Creator and the Cosmos

Review of The Creator and the Cosmos: first in a series...

Recently, the Headmaster made a promise to read a book on creation - The Creator and the Cosmos, by Hugh Ross. He's heard it all before, so the exercise seems pointless, but he actually thought this might be different: an academically trained astronomer claims that scientific discoveries reveal divine creation. At face value, it seems like an interesting read.

The headmaster is only on the first page of the third of these very brief opening chapters, and he's already exhausted from the mental gymnastics employed by the author to lead the reader to his preconceived conclusions. We might have entitled this post "We Read The Creator and the Cosmos So YOU Don't Have To". You can thank the Academy with gifts and money, which would help the struggling endowment.

The headmaster's review will be posted here chapter by chapter, rather than waiting until the end. We just don't think he has the stomach to get through more than a chapter a day. In fact, we're not sure he'll get through it at all - there are far too many interesting books out there tempting him away from this one. But he promised, so we'll do our best. Who knows, in the end the faculty of the Academy may all be converts...