Share the Creation with your family, Purposeful Design, Understanding the Creation

A review of award-winning coffee table book that beautifully reveals the principles of science that operate our world. Purposeful Design, Understanding the Creation offers compelling evidence that a loving Creator was purposeful in His design of our world.

The book beautifully reveals the principles of science that operate our world and masterfully explains the elements of design that make life possible. What I truly enjoyed was how the author compellingly presents evidence that a loving Creator God was purposeful in these designs.

Jay Schabacker is very specific that it is just not intelligent design, but purposeful design, that has made life possible on earth. That has made possible our own existence here. And that everything around us, in the Universe, has come together to make life happen. In his opinion, and mine, it would not have been possible, without a purposeful design.

I first read the book by myself and I was compelled on how the author used science together with photography to bring forth the beauty of the Creation. Everything in the book is very accurate, even minuscious but at the same time it is filled with the wonder and admiration for the skill and love that our Purposeful Creator had, both for the world, and for human beings.

The pictures beautifully blend together with the words from Bible and science while the author explains the facts behind the work of God. In my opinion the book is a wonderful thing to have in any home, both to look at and to study.

The second time I read the book together with my ten year old son. We went through the Creation once again. He knows the story and it was very interesting for us both to read the scientific facts of why it was necessary to have the atmosphere, or why it is so important that such a huge part of earth surface is oceans.

The book is a powerful tool to teach children, not just teenagers. My son might not have been able to grasp all the scientific facts but that is why Purposeful Design, Understanding the Creation is so important to have. It gives a family a way to share the story of Genesis from another point of view, with Biblical facts. And it enables the parents to teach how Bible holds itself against, and together, with science. That believing in God and in the Bible, is not against the science, but science, in fact, is also part of the purposeful design.

I recommend the book for all Christian parents wanting to give a biblical and scientific option to their children. But especially to parents who are homeschooling and looking for material to impart their teaching.

The author Jay Schabacker is a former aerospace engineer and businessman. He was an engineer on the Apollo Moon Program and the founder of a financial investment firm. His goal in writing the book was to offer an enduring and positive alternative to the negativity inherent in modern life. He has a two-fold purpose in doing this, for one side to reveal the principles of science that operate our world and for the other side offer compelling evidence that a loving God deliberately created these designs.

Schabacker comments, "I wrote this book because I want everyone to have an immensely positive view of themselves, of this world that we are in, and of others, mostly through understanding our own astounding and loving creation".

He adds, "It concerned me that newspapers continually remind us of the negative. On the contrary, this book is my attempt to impart a healthy belief system and lifestyle to both teens and adults that will better serve them for the rest of their lives".

Purposeful Design - Understanding the Creation was winner of the 2013 Illumination Book Award, Bronze, in the category of Education (Home School, Bible School, etc.).

Purposeful Design - Understanding the Creation in Amazon. 

You can also buy the book straight from the author's page.

Disclosure: I was provided with a e-copy of this book for review purposes.  All opinions expressed in this post are my own.