I am amazed that I was so impressed by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt’s book The Farm at the Center of the Universe kid’s book published by the Discovery Institute. I am not sure whether my impression of the book counts much because I am old and this book was not aimed at me. At the same time, I have a STEM PhD from an R1 University, understand the material at a fairly deeply level, and I am really sorry this book was not available to us when we homeschooled our kids over a decade ago (our kids are both scientists at elite universities on the East coast–MIT/JHU). We used materials from the Discovery Institute in our homeschool program, but it required some pretty heavy lifting to translate those materials to a level that our middle school age kids could understand. This book fills that void. I highly recommend this book for homeschool and private school use as a mechanism for the discussion of the existence of God and the current state of knowledge, both in popular culture and in the academy. You will thank me for this advice.
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