From Atoms to Humans: Helping Christians Understand the Role of Natural Processes in Organizing the Universe, Earth, and Life

A Big History book presenting perspectives that have helped thousands of Christians deepen their understanding of nature.

Accessible and enlightening, the book explores nature in a way that accommodates both scientific and religious viewpoints. Topics include answers to these questions:

• How do we identify truth, and are scientific discoveries true?
• What produced the order we see in nature?
• How do atoms, stars, and planets form, and how did the Universe develop?
• How was Earth organized, and how did it become habitable?
• What made organisms the way they are, and how do bodies and species form?

Devoted Christians, the authors are professors of geology, physics, and biology with more than a century of combined experience helping Christians learn about the Universe, Earth, and Life.

This is a great book for people of faith who are striving to understand scientific discoveries.

(e-book versions of this title are available through VitalSource and Google Play Books.)

<b>Dan Moore</b> is a geoscientist with interests in geochemistry, deep time, philosophy of science, science and religion, and transhumanism. He has served as a leader in his department, university, and professional organizations. Dr. Moore has lived in California, Canada, Idaho, Argentina, Utah, New York, Maryland, and Virginia. He and his wife DaLynn have seven children.<br><br><b>Brian Tonks</b> is a planetary scientist with interests in the origin of the Solar System, the history and philosophy of science, the relationship between discovered and revealed truth, and how the Earth keeps us alive. Together with the other authors, he was influential in developing the courses that lead to this book, and he served as the chairperson of his department. Dr. Tonks has lived in Idaho, Utah, Florida, and Arizona. He and his wife Nancy have four children.<br><br><b>Alan Holyoak</b> is a biologist with interests in the diversity and evolution of animal life, and the ecology and developmental biology of marine organisms. He has taught or carried out research at the marine biological stations of the U of Washington, U Hawaii, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, and U of Oregon. Dr. Holyoak has lived in Louisiana, Kansas, Canada, Japan, Hawaii, Utah, California, Indiana, and Idaho. He and his wife Kathrine have four children.