My most recent reading project was James W. Sire and Carl Peraino, Deepest Differences: A Christian-Atheist Dialogue (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2009). Sire is a longtime editor at InterVarsity Press and wrote The Universe Next Door, a classic Christian presentation of worldviews. Peraino is a retired research biochemist who has performed important research in oncology.
In the prefatory material, the two authors starkly but subtly paint their contrasting views of life. On the one hand, Sire thanks God for giving him a long life with and a mind fascinated by the mysteries of God and his universe. On the other hand, Peraino feels fortunate that he emerged into sentience in a relatively benign environment via the concatenation of innumerable chance events spanning millions of years of evolution.
Peraino is willing to bite the bullet of his own reductionist worldview here. I appreciate and respect that. His statement strikes me as a modern example of what Paul was writing about in Romans 1:21-22.
IMPORTANT ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: DIRECT QUOTATIONS ON THE REFLECTIONARY ARE ALWAYS GIVEN IN GREEN
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