Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #264605 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

There are Scientists and There Are Scientists
Ashton has rounded up 50 scientists who all believe the literal biblical account of creation. Sounds impressive? Sadly, no on a number of counts.

When you consider, even with clear religious motivation to one side, that many of the scientists here are qualified in fields other than the ones in question e.g. electrical engineers giving their opinion on biological evolution, the validity of their "scientific" opinion is rather shaky at best. Put it this way, I am a biologist with postgraduate qualifications and you wouldn't want my advice on wiring up an electricity sub-station.

As a rebuttal of this type of creationist "we have scientists too" flag waving, the National Center for Science Education has invited genuine scientists only (not engineers), called Steve only (as a tribute to Stephen J Gould), to sign up to their statement on the validity of evolution and opposition to creationism. Currently they have over 820 Steves listed.

Yes, real actual scientists
A very interesting and useful book. 50 eloquent and accessible contributions from Bible-believing scientists, engineers and researchers, many of the entries with notes and references, covering a large range of disciplines, including biology, biochemistry, physical chemistry, mathematical physics, genetics, inorganic chemistry, botany, geophysics, theoretical chemistry, meteorology, geology, electrical engineering and various others.

Not only is the book very informative, but of course it also provides a substantive challenge to the oft heard slander that Creationists are lousy scientists, unreasonable bigots, idiotic blunderers, etc etc. It is remarkable how commonly the evolution/creation debate is misleadingly portrayed as real proper scientists v delusional religious bigots, conveniently side-stepping the fact that very many trained, reputable and accomplished scientists are Creationists. Somehow they stop being real scientists the moment the Materialists start talking.

I highly recommend this book. It is well put together, interesting and helpful. With an almost conversational feel the scientists speak of their views, their experiences and their arguments. Real people, real arguments, real scientists. Fascinating stuff.

Unconvincing
If you are expecting scientific arguments to back up six-day creation, you won't find any here. What comes across loud and clear is that the contributors believe in six-day creation because that's what it says in the bible. They back this up with the same hackneyed creationist arguments against evolution as ever. No-one with any scientific knowledge will be fooled.