They make difficult arguments easy to follow, though devotees of Stephen Jay Gould, the late Carl Sagan, and other apostles of naturalistic evolution will not be forced into retreat. The chief value in this section is the encouragement it can give readers already suspicious of the evolutionary worldview, but for a fuller refutation, one must go to writers such as Johnson and Behe. In the next part, the authors turn to explaining the human race's predicament by discussing the doctrine of the Fall, which was also central to Schaeffer's apologetics. Here again, the authors offer solid arguments, but in the compass of even a large book that attempts to deal with the entire Christian worldview, they do so in a shorthand and summary fashion. Colson and Pearcey tell readers how to deal with the complex decisions that have to be made every day.
Topics range from sexual ethics to living in a capitalist economy to educating one's children.
Throughout the book, Colson and Pearcey stand clearly in the tradition of Schaeffer, who was the first evangelical this century to undertake a massive, hopeful, and effective defense of the Christian worldview against the host of enemies assailing the faith. This is perhaps the greatest compliment that can be paid to their work. In a number of cases, these criticisms are justified. Then again, in a book that tries to equip the Christian soldier for philosophical world war, it is impossible to cover all points with the precision of a series of scholarly monographs. They are not detailed depictions of the subject.