less reason to believe in God, and besides, we knew the science of evolution was full of holes. This reasoning made perfect sense to me as a child, and I accepted it uncritically. Later, I would learn that this view sits in strong tension, to put it mildly, with centuries of Christian thought and practice. The long-standing tradition is one that views both nature and Scripture as “books” authored by God, and holds that science, properly done, is a way to understand the sustaining