Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131030 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 338 pages

Customer Reviews

Icons' Rebuttals Drip Venom, a Good Sign!
I read the rebuttals at Talk Origins side-by-side with each chapter. It's always good to hear both sides of the argument.

Most objections are quibbles over interpretations of evidence. But what struck me most was the venom-dripping by reviewers answering Wells's relatively dispassionate critique. They primarily attack the person, not the argument. This tells me that there is something very wrong when evolution-believers make their case: emotions are playing out, not reason. It's also the sign of a weak argument. Good to see squirming!

The Tree of Life is one example. The basic fact is that "Phylum-level differences" (the highest level of differences) appear at the start of the fossil record, or exactly where they should not be if evolution was true. Part of the rebuttal by Matzke, quoting Conway Morris, is that differences are "really a human artefact, a construct of our imagination." Or, in other words, phyla A and B aren't really that different. It's just that we call them A and B! Squids, shells and worms aren't that different?

Actually, Wells makes some solid points without diving into the technical details where many of us would become lost and which actually do not greatly affect the overall conclusions. His essential point: what evolution holds up as indisputable evidence of fact turns out to be mythical "icons" of a religion: Darwinism. They have become dogma, the beliefs you just have to accept as truth in order to be accepted by science.

Well worth reading!

A CREATIONIST "GOD OF THE GAPS" MERCHANT....yawn
It's sad that otherwise smart people want to try to undermine a highly workable scientific theory just because they have an ulterior motive of bringing an invisible "force" into the issue........
In fact it's pathetic really.
Why not read one of the hundreds of riveting (empirically researched) and breathtaking books on evolution which underline the vast complexities of natural processes..such as "ALMOST LIKE A WHALE" or "THE ANCESTOR's TALE"?.
I only recommend that all readers take the trouble to inform themselves properly about modern evolutionary thinking + theory, instead of wasting their time/money reading this kind of biased, blinkered, mediochre, and often apocryphal blah.

Irrefutable proof that people will believe anything
This is religion attempting rather unconvincingly to masquerade as science.

Any halfway competent evolutionary biologist can provide a point-by-point refutation of the claims of this book, and several have done so in print. Any halfway competent logician can explain the fallacies perpetrated along the way. It's about as convincing as "Aeroplanes are heavier than air, so they can't possibly fly."