The Chattanooga Times Free Press
has profiled a writer of murder mysteries who has centred one around Intelligent Design. The book, titled
Murder Intelligently Designed (Grit and Grace Mysteries)
has the following tagline: “When atheistic biology professor, Brenda Blechard, is found flattened under a bust of Nietzsche, Grit Griffin, Grace Willis, and fellow "Deep Water" members must solve the crime and exonerate a friend.” Being a pastor's wife, she has accepted the propositions of intelligent design but has this to say about other views:
Christians unabashedly should be able to accept proven scientific theory and still conclude there is a God, Wooley says.
"Those who insist on Earth being created in six 24-hour days -- you're not going to change their minds," she says. "But they're doing a disservice to Christians who want to pursue science" and a God who wouldn't allow the revelation of so much scientific information if it were false.
Wooley, 65, a minister's wife and former church secretary, also can't help putting her experiences and her frustrations in the book.
One of her characters, for instance, recalls being forced to attempt to speak in tongues as a child. That mirrored the author's childhood, when she was "frightened to death" by an occurrence at a Pentecostal Bible camp.
"At that age," she says, "nobody should be told they'll be unable to be a Christian and won't be loved by God" if they can't perform on demand.
It should be a good read.
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