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Title: It Couldn't Just Happen : Fascinating Facts About God's World by Lawrence O. Richards ISBN: 0-8499-3583-0 Publisher: Tommy Nelson Pub. Date: 28 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: An argument always is brilliant . . . until it's refuted.
Comment: As a christian child of about 10 or 11, I read this book. Cover to cover. Practially memorized it. As this was my very first exposure to the theory of evolution, the author had no trouble whatsoever in totally polarizing me against evolution. It took me until my college years and learning about how science works and about cosmology in my astronomy class before I would even give evolution more than a disgusted look. In _River out of Eden_, Richard Dawkins absolutely blows this little children's book out of the water. Today I am a convinced evolutionist.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible misrepresentation of science.
Comment: This book (obviously one sided) is filled with logical fallacies-
On p.13, it says "This law (2nd law of thermodynamics) tells us that anything which is organized tends, with time, to become disorganized."- Thermodynamics does state that matter can only go away- In a closed system! The evolutionary process on earth is not a closed system- we get energy from the sun. And our universe is in no way organized- the stars are scattered randomly in the galaxies, they go nova and spread out there energy in inefficient ways, planets move in odd orbits, ect.
Then, on p.20, a section on how the other planets are too hot or too cold to support life, and that god must have made earth for us begins- This is backwards! That's like saying that my grandfather was named after me, or that a car is the builder of a factory. There are billions of stars in our galaxy, and with odds like that, at least 1 would have life. It just happened to be us.
The section (from about p.36 to p.) Deals with the dinosaurs. Some flaws- The asteroid scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs crashed in the Yucatan. On p.39,, the author suddenly explores the ludicrous idea of a "Death star" which very few scientists believe (to his credit, he proves this idiotic hypothesis wrong) but then he lumps the Asteroid catastrophe theory in with the death star theory, as a simple way to get that out of the way so he can further the creationist hypothesis.
On pg. 42, the author says "the Flood undoubtedly occurred." BUT GIVES NO EVIDENCE (a common theme throughout the book)! One quote is "Many creationists have pointed out that fossils have been found, jumbled together, as though swept into one place by an overwhelming flood of waters." But he then offers no actual sites of this- just a sentence without evidence. What he does not explain is how we have never found dinosaurs and trilobites, or brachiopods and humans together- or for that matter, Mesozoic ferns and fir trees! (The common creationist response is that the plants lived underwater- but plants are killed by to much water, especially a huge amount of moving, down pouring waters.
On p.49, there is a part against radiometric dating- some of it is accurate, but radiocarbon dating (C14) is not the only way to date things. Dating the half-life of atoms, such as potassium, is another, highly accurate way to date ancient objects.
The rest of this book is similar- filled with backless statements, exaggeration, biases, and information disproved hundreds of times over by real scientists.
This review will probably be ignored by many people interested in this book, but if I could pick up this book and read it, a creationist should pick up Dawkin's The Selfish Gene, or The Origin of Species.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource for YOU and your children to understand
Comment: If you want to understand why the various "theories" are not sound, this book is for you and your children. It would make an excellent homeschool support group module class for science study. It takes each one of the evolutionary theories one by one and shows why they have been discredited. After it gets done showing the lack of credibility in each of the theories of evolution, there is nothing a rational person could do but see that it couldn't have happened in that way.
This book makes excellent sense!
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Title: The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible by Paul S. Taylor ISBN: 0781430712 Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Amazing Story of Creation: From Science and the Bible by Duane T. Gish, D Dish, Earl Snellenberger, Bonnie Snellenberger, Henry Madison Morris ISBN: 0890511209 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation by Dennis R. Petersen ISBN: 0890513716 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.99 |
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Title: Physics Lab in the Home (Physical Science Labs) by Robert Friedhoffer, Joe Hosking ISBN: 053111323X Publisher: Franklin Watts, Incorporated Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times by Ruth Beechick, Michael Denman ISBN: 0940319071 Publisher: Arrow Pr Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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