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Review: "If God Then What?" by Andrew Wilson

Apologetics is seldom funny. In part that is because souls are at stake but also because apologists are often grumpy and argumentative.  So a book that is easy to read, clear and jammed full of quips, anecdotes and good arguments is refreshing. Andrew Wilson is a Brit, a pastor and, as it turns out, a good writer. His contribution to apologetics is novel not due to any originality in terms of content, but due to a conversational style that will help even the most non-apologetically inclined reader get to the end of the book. If God Then What? Begins with Wilson's journey from "fundamentalism," the belief that one is right whether or not the evidence supports it, to seeking to provide reasons for Christian belief. Wilson then sets out his case for an inference to the best explanation method: "One, we identify what the evidence is; two, we establish the possible explanations; and three, we see which one explains the evidence more completely, simply and cohere...