Fool and the Heretic: How Two Scientists Moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution

In a brief, memoir-like narrative, The Fool and the Heretic tracks the improbable relationship between two scientists who not only hold opposing views on their deeply held views of origins, but believe each is doing serious damage to the church.

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists--one with a PhD in genetics, the other with a PhD in biochemistry--who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they (and how the millions of people like them on either side of this debate) can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church.

To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant--a fool.

Todd Charles Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic. This book shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more importantly, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues and yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.