Big Mamma, with a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, makes the world and everything in it and, at the end of the sixth day, tells the people she has made that they must take care of her creation.
Flash point -- The gathering storm -- The clouds burst -- Wisdom of the ages -- The creedal climate -- Toward better interpretations -- Anchored in Scripture -- Guided by theology -- Good God, cruel world -- Peace through paradise -- Young-earth Darwinism -- Faith, morality, and long creation days -- Big bang : the Bible said it first -- Scientific signs of old age -- Challenges to an old cosmos -- The reliability of radiometric dating -- The scientific case for a young cosmos -- Physical reality breaks through the fog -- Narrow time windows -- The significance of man -- A clear "day" interpretation -- Councils attempt to bring calm -- Tranquillity through testing.
Brings her encyclopedic knowledge of this history of human life on this planet to bear on questions more often treated in sweeping generalizations:Is Christianity responsible for ecological crisis?.
Provides an illustrated overview of South Pacific mythology, covering Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, and Hawaii, and discussing the unique qualities and traditions of the region's mythology.
