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Average Rating:  out of 5 Reviews
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $7.85
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Manufacturer: Master Books
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780890514375
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alex Williams::John Hartnett
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Publisher: Master Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231.7652
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Publication Date: 2005-07
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Reading Level: 330
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Description: This powerful resource answers the age old cosmology debate and includes within its pages: • A brief history of scientific cosmology • The big bang model, including origins of stars, planets, and life • The creation model, including the views of Moses and Jesus • Other cosmological models, including future trends • The errors in evolutionary time scales, time indicators, and ages • Appendixes and comprehensive index In modern times, the Bible has become increasingly disconnected from most Christians’ understanding of the real world. Cosmology — the way we think about the universe — has come to be totally dominated by secular beliefs, such as the big bang. Many Christians, including prominent leaders, have therefore felt compelled to “reinterpret” the Bible in the light of big bang thinking. To its credit, the big bang is an interesting and worthwhile scientific theory, and it is the best candidate that materialists have been able to put forward to this point to try to explain the universe without God, but it is demonstrably inadequate, to say the least. Big bang theory cannot explain the origin of the universe or of the significant objects within it (i.e. galaxies, stars, planets, and people). Big bang theory contains no credible or consistent naturalistic cause to explain what we see. Dismantling the Big Bang reveals these scientific and philosophical weaknesses at the core of big-bang thinking and the contradictions to which they lead. Written on a level that laypeople can understand, it comparatively shows the intellectual superiority of the history of the universe given in the Bible as a basis for our thinking about the cosmos. We need to rediscover how to think about the universe in the only way that makes sense — from God’s perspective, in the light of the history given in His Word.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: More Than Worthwhile |
Date: 2007-11-02 |
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Details: This is a book that challenges today's default worldview and obviously there are some who don't like their applecart upended. I'll admit the sweeping assertions seemed at time a bit strained, till the evidence supporting them began to pile up. Schoolyard name calling (see other reviews) is a poor answer to the evidence brought to bear in this book. I highly recommend this for any individual who is willing to think critically and read a different view, written by individuals obviously quite familiar with the issues involved. Not all agree with the Big Bang as currently theorized, and not all of these are creationists, young earth or otherwise. Perhaps that is what disturbs the one-star reviewers the most. It's the same reaction that greets critics of Darwinism and we've all been down this road before: if you're not at least willing to listen and think, as least stop the hysterical noise so the rest of us can! |
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Review Summary: Williams/Hartnett Big Bang Agenda |
Date: 2007-06-18 |
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Details: I bought this book believing it to be a critique of the Big Bang model, done with scientific rigour. The book is useful in presenting and reviewing work by others (notably H. Arp) that seriously questions the Big Bang (and by extension, current cosmological wisdom).
However, the authors' sole purpose - agenda - was to promote a religious paradigm with primary reference to the Big Bang theory.
There is no effort to review work being done by scholars on alternative models to the current gravity-based cosmology.
For those who wish to persue scholarly discussion, I would not recommend this book.
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Review Summary: This book is based on superstition, not science. |
Date: 2007-03-23 |
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Details: I recieved this book as a gift from a "born again" friend who thought it would convince me that the universe was created by the Christian god. My friend had not read the book previously - if he had he would have been too embarrased to let anyone else read it.
There is no science in this book, the authors merely mock science as they attempt to convince the reader that the words of Bronze Age, tent dwelling, nomadic, goat herders have more authority in the subject of scientific inquiry than all the scientists who have contributed to the knowledge and understanding that we have accumulated up to the present.
At one point while attacking a statement about gods made by the late Carl Sagan, the authors write: "we believe Dr. Sagan is aware of his error now". This superstitious drivel is reminiscent of the commonly repeated Evangelical saying: "Darwin is now a creationist in hell".
The book is a joke. Far from convincing the reader that any credibility exists in Creationism it shows how far removed from reality the ideas of Creationism are.
If you have some time to kill, reading this book will open your eyes to the self deception and dishonesty that are required for believers to swallow this garbage. You will be amazed. |
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Review Summary: More than worth the time, money, and effort to read. |
Date: 2006-03-05 |
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Details: I purchased this book perhaps two months ago or so (January of 2006). I finished it within 24 hours. That is not to imply it is a simple book, nor that I am incredibly intelligent, but that I found it to be highly interesting, well-written, and very informative. Of course, I had a slight, educated layperson, familiarity with some of the issues the book raises (the formation of galaxies, the age of the Universe, starlight, etc.), so the going was a bit easier for me than perhaps many might find. Even so, the book is very clear, and very "easy" to read ("easy" in the sense of understandable, not in the sense of simple or simplistic).
I would have to go back through the book to detail any specific issue, but I don't feel that is necessary (especially given my lack of actual expertise in any of the areas). It is very thorough and wide-ranging in dealing with topics relevant to addressing "Big Bang" theory - the authors even provide a summary towards the end of the book of some other cosmological models.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the origin of the Universe, and in the legitimacy of "Big Bang" theory. This, along with "Starlight and Time" by Dr. Russell Humphreys, is one of my two favorite books which deal with the origin of the Universe from a Creationist perspective.
My thanks to the authors for their work. |
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Review Summary: Big Bang Boggles |
Date: 2005-09-15 |
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Details: This book clarifies the real issues with the big bang. Really it is all about ones starting assumptions and this book helps the reader to see what we really know and what we don't know. Clearly the big bang cannot be thought of as a proven fact, far from it. It seems that as the big bang model has 'evolved' so have the problems with it accumulated. A model that cannot describe much more than an expanding cloud of dust and gas hardly describes the universe we live in. This book was written for the lay Christian, contains no equations, and does an absolutley excellent job of explaining the big bang in lay terms. It shows that it is absolutely imcompatible with the biblical description of our origins. Therefore Christains cannot use the big bang as some method by which God created the universe. Instead taking the biblical description at face value is a far better approach to describing the world and the cosmos we see. |
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