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Review Summary: Awesome Book! |
Date: 2008-09-20 |
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Details: This is an amazing book if you are looking for the real facts behind evolutionism and creationism from a former evolutionist professor. It is very easy to understand and very well planned out. Excellent read! |
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Review Summary: Worth reading |
Date: 2008-05-25 |
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Details: I found this book well worth reading. The author clearly expresses his beliefs and seems to have done a good job of footnoting his references. By itself, this book is unlikely to change the mind of someone opposed to creation, but it may inspire further study of some of the ideas. This book is easier to read than Dean Overman's "A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization" and has some interesting references to geological questions that I previously thought were unquestioned facts. I intend to read two of the referenced sources to learn more about some of these theories. |
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Review Summary: Creation - Facts of Life in the Real World! |
Date: 2007-12-26 |
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Details: I say in the real world, because that what Dr. Parker is talking about. I have the 1994 edition of this book. This book is very readable and Parker presents it as if he were talking to you personally I felt. The table of contents indicate what the subject matter is really about. The subjects he covers include logic and observation, the origin of life, DNA and protein, homology, embryonic development, adaptation and ecology, design, natural selection and mutations, pangenesis, variation, species and kinds, invertebrates, vertebrates, fossil plants, human beings, neocatastrophism and the Grand Canyon. Some pictures are provided making it even more interesting. I found a couple of typos in my edition. No index was provided which is useful to some who may be looking for information on a particular subject. I highly recommend the book and it should be in your library. |
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Review Summary: Evidence for Creation or where the beef really is |
Date: 2007-05-16 |
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Details: Evolution is based on faith, bias and obstinacy. Creation is based on logic demonstrated through evidence and facts. This book is the definitive one (it can't get any better) to finally vote for Creationism as against Evolution (that is, macro-evolution). You won't need any more books because you won't have any more doubts.
Evolutionists would still have us believe that the sun moves around the Earth simply because they have to justify their salaries. But they never convince, they threaten and insult, that they do well. Next thing they will have us believe that Princes come from frogs, if you only kiss them for three million years. I am not an ultra-conservative or anti-utopian person. I am open-minded enough and willing to give evolution a chance if I see some evidence, just as I would believe in the goodness of Marxism if I could see it work somewhere (and Castro would just quit). But it ain't the case, Chase.
There are a lot of questions that strict evolutionists don't know how to answer, even by 2007 and, however, they are absolutely obstinate about being right. "In evolutionary thinking, chance and struggle produce 'new and improved' forms of life. In biblical thinking, chance and struggle produce disease, decline and death."
The author himself was an evolutionist before he decided to check the facts from a biblical perspective. It took him three years to change his mind and fully believe that the Bible is the best guide to understanding God's world. This book is written by a scientist who became a Christian. It is written in an easy to understand language, full of facts, quotes from other leading scientists, and lots of investigation on fields like biology, genetics to paleontology (and don't tell me you're smarter than him, that won't do).
Evolutionists don't even explain why horses, dogs or fish have stopped evolving, if they ever evolved -which they haven't, otherwise why have they stopped?-. Evolution does not trespass barriers between species. There are different "varieties" of dogs, but they are still dogs. Animals just become more adapted and fitted to their particular environment. The change is only within kind, not from one kind to others. "Natural selection does not explain the origin of species or traits, but only their preservation. Lewontin ... recognizes that 'natural selection operates essentially to enable the organisms to maintain their state rather than to improve it'. "
There is the false idea that mutations in the genes are the motor of transformation, but: "mutations presuppose creation. After all, mutations are only changes in genes that already exist."
There's a warning in this book against trying to become a peacemaker between evolutionists and creationists while being a Christian. The author himself had been through that stage. He tried to convince himself that evolution told us how God did it. The reason for the warning: "Darwin described the evolutionary process (as) ... the 'war of nature, famine, and death'. Evolution is a gruesome cycle of struggle-and-death." But "God even tells us that He was 'grieved to His heart by the violence and corruption' that filled the earth after people turned away from Him (Genesis 6:5-6). If God was grieved by violence and corruption, how could He use it as His means of creation? ... Evolution is the opposite of the whole Gospel message."
"great variation within kind ("micro-evolution") by itself could never, even in infinite time, lead to macro-evolution." That is, small changes don't just add up continuously.
The chapter about fossils is very relevant. The Neanderthals, who were supposed to be our ancestors, are now considered to be -even by evolutionists- no more different from people living today (and I think know those people). Somebody owes an apology to Mr Neanderthal. But these nice Neanderthals were not the only ones so ill-treated by our racists of laboratory: The Tasmanian aborigines were once considered also as a subhuman evolutionary link. Then there's the Piltdown hoax. Why did that happen? " ... people (just) wanted to believe in evolution". Kind of what happend with the infamous Da Vinci Code: people just want to believe it. Then the author discusses the Lucy bones, and the Austrolopitecus (forgive my spelling) and that does more than convince me.
A final word: More evolutionary fantasy is not going to help us, folks. In Spain one chimp already ran for president and won (he's known as the Spanish Mr Bean), and things are getting pretty hair-raising here. Those who are not into any monkey business will soon end up as second rate citizens in a cage. And no banana.
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Review Summary: The BEST!!! |
Date: 2007-01-02 |
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Details: I never really understood evolutionary theories until I read this book. That is
because I simply accepted - on FAITH - that all those scientists couldn't
possibly be mistaken, without really examining things like statistical probabilites,
actual fossil evidence and so on and on. To truly be fair minded, one summer I
decided to look at the creationist point of view. As I said, I never really
understood evolution before. I had to really stop and think and re-read quite
a few passages and chapters in this book. This was not because it was difficult
to understand, as it is extremely easy to understand, it's just that I had to
stop and reflect on what I had been taught, and had accepted, in the light
of scientific facts. When it all sank in on me and I saw how
UNscientific evolution is, I had one of the biggest belly laughs of my
adult life, just seeing the absurdity of it all. At the same time I felt
such a sense of wonder at creation. And such a sense of sadness...The miraculousness
of life had been, in a sense, stolen from me.
If you only read one book on Creationism, mho, this is it. You will never
see evolution, the world, or possibly yourself, the same.
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