Episode 19: Starting The Conversation with Janet Kellogg Ray

Voices In The Wilderness

Author, Janet Kellogg Ray, joins Voices in the Wilderness to talk about the new Study Guide for her book, Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark. How do we start the hard conversations with those who have a very narrow view of Science and The Bible? What is the best way to overcome built in bias? Is there a better way to defuse a charged conversation that will build instead of burn a bridge? In Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark? The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit, Janet Kellogg Ray reached out to Christians who experience cognitive dissonance between their creationist commitments and modern science. With this new study guide, she returns to her argument with fresh perspective and an eye toward practical instruction. Ray approaches her topic with empathy for her readers while maintaining scientific rigor. This discussion guide is the perfect companion for students and nonexpert readers of her book, as it includes notes, discussion questions, and lists of external resources to supplement the original. Expanded treatments of each chapter’s topics encourage thinking with and beyond the concepts introduced in the main text. Janet Kellogg Ray, a science educator who grew up a creationist, doesn’t want other Christians to have to do the exhausting mental gymnastics she did earlier in her life. Working through the findings of a range of fields including geology, paleontology, and biology, she shows how a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis simply doesn’t mesh with what we know to be reality. But as someone who remains a committed Christian, Ray also shows how an acceptance of the theory of evolution is not necessarily an acceptance of atheism, and how God can still be responsible for having created the world, even if it wasn’t in a single, momentary, miraculous event. Janet's books are available at our affiliate links below. Make sure you pre-order her newest book: The God of Monkey Science: People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World: https://amzn.to/3AbVtSJ Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit: https://amzn.to/40iEXef A Study Guide for BABY DINOSAURS ON THE ARK?: https://amzn.to/3mLJ9Fu

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