Total Truth by Nancy Pearcy

I read this book recently. It is in my top five or ten books I've ever read. To some it might seem sort of academic, but I would encourage anyone to try to read it. I think it will revolutionize the way you think of your faith. It's a book about "worldview." The basic premise that Pearcy explains is this: In our world today, we have allowed science to lay claim to the realm of "truth," while Christianity--and any other faith system--have been relegated to the inferior realm of "opinion." Our culture believes that Christianity has nothing of importance to say about the origins of our world, the processes of nature, etc. They think religious beliefs are purely subjective and have no bearing on how we do science or how we understand reality. Science has been elevated to a superior level because it is supposedly based on facts and observations alone. So there is this divide between science and Christianity--the former being trustworthy and the latter being suspect.
What Pearcy clearly shows is that science itself--as it is practiced today--makes great assumptions about the world. Just as Christians believe that God exists and that nature was guided by His hand, scientists typically start with the belief that there is NO God (aka "naturalism"), and they proceed to explain the world from that starting point. So it is absurd to say that scientific naturalism is based purely on fact and Christianity purely on opinion. In reality, Christianity is able to offer a clearer explanation of reality than scientific naturalism. Pearcy shows how inadequate science has been to show how their beliefs have produced the world we see today (evolution has no verifiable evidence, something as complex as DNA could never have developed by random chance as they propose, etc.) Christianity, on the other hand, is able to offer a more than adequate explanation of reality: a Creator who designed the world just as He wanted it.....I might offer more thoughts on this later, but for now I'll leave it here. This book really helped me take heart in my beliefs, because Christianity is not an ignorant little step-child to science. In fact, the Christian worldview is able to make far MORE sense of the world we live in than scientific naturalism is.