Book review: Natural God, Deism in the Age of Intelligent Design

by Beth Houston

★★★

The final two chapters of this book are inspiring. But since most readers will slog through the first 400 pages to reach those chapters, I’d better review the initial pages as well. So bear with me, here, until we get to the good stuff.

I opened Beth Houston’s new book to find a heated attack on Darwinism on the very first page. Surely, in this age of genetics and evolutionary biology,she’s not going to base her Deism on Creationism is she?

Nope. “Genesism,” says Houston, is j...