Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1887673 in Books
• Published on: 1998-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 396 pages

Customer Reviews

Evolutionism is a philosophy
A good book to show the obvious: Evolutionism is a philosophy, not natural science.

Most books in the creation/evolution debate want to be (natural) scientific - the authors of this book, however, show that we are not talking about natural science, but about a totally different scientific discipline, i.e. philosophy and religion.

Highly recommended!

Good intent, but poor scholarship
This book is not academic but quite popular, this may be why it consists for a great part of cutting and pasting citations. This is acceptable in the first part of the book, where they show much evidence for persecution in the American society of those who do not believe in "evolution". They succeed here also in showing the tenets and cultural impacts of the religion of evolution, (although I would rather recommend Johnson's Reason in the Balance.) The trouble begins with the part on the empirical evidence for evolution, which is not impressive (I would rather recommend Denton's Evolution, or Johnson's Darwin.) And the authors miss the major argument (failing to show the incompatibility of evolution with some of the most basic truths such as consciousness, morality, free will, beauty, rationality, as O'Hear does in his Beyond Evolution.) And the parts on the Big Bang or on geology ("flood geology") are catastrophic. I doubt the authors understand much about this issues. I would rather recommend other books (in the direction of Intelligent Design), but this present book may satisfy Young Earth Creationists.

I value much the apologetic efforts and courage of the authors, as their site and TV show, but I hope they will become more critical of Young Earth Creationism, it does more evil to Christianity by discreting it, in my opinion.

Good introduction to the creation vs. evolution debate
This book can be a good introduction for those who are relatively new to being exposed to the fallacies of the evolutionary theory. The book can be broken down into two basic sections. The first section shows the obvious bias of evolutionists against creationists. With some of the statements the evolutionary community accepts, one has to wonder how they can call any creationist "close minded". This is perhaps the best section to read for those who have no idea that the evolutionists are militant in their beliefs. The second section deals with the specifics of how evolution cannot only be improbable, but impossible. This gives some hard "ammo" for creationists to debate evolutionists. The largest problem with the second section, is the authors seem to grapple with how deep they will dicuss the issues. As the book at times seems more like a C.S. Lewis book, it will at this point lose the everyday person who is reading this book as an overview of evolution. Nevertheless, I would recommend the book, simply because of the wealth of knowledge it contains. Many authors and scientists are quoted in detail throughout the book. This gives us an excellent sample of many of our most educated minds. But I couldn't help but feel at times that about 30 pages should have been chopped off the book. This would steamline the book a little more, and the reader would probably not become "bogged down" with certain sections.