Until two hundred years ago, most people in the Western world believed that earth and sky were no more than six thousand years old. Then science brought that date into question. In the pages of From the Big Bang to God, Geering simply and concisely tells the story of evolution and traces the rise and fall of God as a human response to discoveries about the universe. As Geering notes in his preface, this book is an homage to the efforts of the French scientist and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who made a valiant but now dated effort in his magnum opus The Phenomenon of Man to blend science and religion into one seamless story. Geering updates that story for the twenty-first century and asks pointed questions about the future of religion and the meaning of God for the modern world.