Rating: Summary: Scientifically Accurate Review: A must-book to teach children the truth of dinosaurs. It tells what happened to the dinosaurs and shows how evolutionary thought is really a belief of faith instead of sound science. This book is attacked by atheist's and evolutionist's because it question's their belief system.
Rating: Summary: Child porn Review: Any teacher who uses or allows a student to read this book
should be fired and their credentials, if any, trashed. This book
should never be printed or sent to anyone with a scintilla of grey matter.
Rating: Summary: Five stars plus! Review: Are you looking for a book that will present the solid facts on dinosaurs on a level anyone can understand? Look no further! Adults and children alike love this book. It's a book that will be used again and again.
Rating: Summary: Dinosaurs in God's Creation Review: Excellent book for children and all those who want to understand how all creatures fit into God's Universe. The earth is the Lord's and everything in it. It is irrelevant how long ago dinosaurs existed. What is important is that they did exist and were a part of God's devine plan, and are now extinct due to sin.This book helps explain how this is so.
Rating: Summary: Assine. Review: I am in the 10th grade. Our science club picked up this "book" for review and to see just what the ICR claimed was proof of the creationite assertion. To put it mildly, it was diffucult to read, not because of the level of the prose, but because the lack of scienctific credibility and lack of overall logic in the approach and information. Moreover, the author seems to enjoy misquotes, quotes out of context, and total misstatements as tools of what he calls evidence. What is more disturbing is that children and uneducated adults will read this material as having some "scientific" basis, that is or should be criminal. Where is James Randi when you need him??
Rating: Summary: Nice illustrations Review: I thought whether I should have rated it by 2 stars since this book has pretty good illustrations (which often do not agree with the real anatomy of the animals, however). Although this book is hard to read, it might be a good toy for children below 5 years of age (kind of "kindergarten science") who also believe in Santa Claus - be prepared that your child will believe that dinosaurs lived few years ago and he/she will wish to have one! Of course it is dangerous if those inaccurate statements (and their scientifically incorrect conclusions contradicting essentially whole paleontology, geology and physics) are read by older people who take them seriously. Do not panic, crazy opinions about the history of the universe are not deadly and if you like God a lot, you can spend a pretty happy life thinking about the famous George Washington's dinosaur farm. In order to show how such arguments are collected, let me tell you a story about the author. In July of 1982, Dr. Duane Gish debated Dr. Russell Doolittle on public TV. In response to the argument for evolution involving molecular taxonomy, Gish claimed that some blood proteins were more similar between bullfrogs and man than between chimpanzees and man. His source was a story told by Garniss Curtis (UC Berkeley) at the July, 1971 Wenner-Gren conference in Austria. It seems there was a rumor of study comparing blood proteins of humans and bullfrogs that gave the above result (perhaps from the Transylvanian Academy of Sciences?). Curtis predicted (correctly) that the result would not be published or repeated, because it was a dreadful tragedy - the frog was actually an enchanted prince! Gish defends himself by saying he thought Curtis was serious! I, for one, believe Gish - he has made a career out of going around telling jokes and calling them science, and I find it easy to believe he can't tell the difference.
Rating: Summary: An excellent resource Review: I would recommend this book to anyone interested in dinosaurs. The book includes a lot of material that is simply missing in less well-informed texts. The book gives a fascinating insight into the history of dinosaurs. It is well thought out and fact filled. The author's conclusions based on accurate analysis of the scientific evidence are very plausible and they make a lot of sense. I really liked the honest and broad-minded way the subject matter is treated. I would say this book was suitable for both children and adults who want to know the full facts about these mysterious creatures.
Rating: Summary: Dinosaurs on the Ark? Review: Let's get real. If Noah had been asked to include dinosaurs on the ark, wouldn't that have been worth mentioning in the bible? This is feel good drivel for creationists.
Rating: Summary: Dishonest Review: The author of this book apparently wants to deceive his young readers. Gish falsely claims that a dinosaur has been found in Antarctic ice when in fact it was found in sedimentary rocks. Gish claims that a carcass netted by fishermen off New Zealand in 1977 is a plesiosaur when in fact biochemical tests showed it was a decayed basking shark. Gish claims that specimens of duck-billed dinosaurs with skin preserved were buried alive in Noah's flood when in fact they represent animals that died and were desiccated in an arid environment and later preserved as sandstone casts sometimes called "hadrosaur mummies". This book has several pictures of the pterosaur _Quetzalcoatalus_ depicting it as an animal with many sharp teeth in its bill. In reality this pterosaur lacked teeth. The only apparent reason for the addition of teeth to the illustrations is some bizarre cryptozoology claim about two cowboys shooting a living pterosaur in the old west. Gish has the strange belief that some crested duck-billed dinosaurs breathed fire - because old legends mention fire-breathing dragons! Gish depicts the scientific community as split over the age of the earth. And so it goes...in example after example Gish leaves out evidence about various dinosaur finds that do not support his fundamentalist beliefs. This book represents creationist ignorance at its worst. Even fundamentalists should be careful about letting their kids have this appalling because some day their children will encounter real books on dinosaurs and paleontology and see that _Dinosaurs By Design_ is ignorant pseudoscience. The suggestion by Gish that _T. rex_ was originally a vegetarian until Adam ate the apple should be enough to show this book is really about fundamentalist theology and is devoid of scientific value.
Rating: Summary: Just Plain Awful Review: There is nothing more annoying than people who obfuscate the truth in the name of God. Gish's book is the same old, same old in terms of the usual outdated creationist silliness about dinosaurs and Noah's flood, but what I find especially funny is that Gish can't even get the skeletal reconstructions right. Many modern finds have allowed the work of 19th century collectors to be refined, but Gish doesn't even bother to take note of any paleontological work done in even the 20th century in showing the kids what the complete skeletons look like! For example, his Stegosaurus is copied right out of works now over 100 years old and completely omits major elements of their anatomy known for at least the last 75 years! Such things aren't a political or religious question -- they are simply a matter of showing kids what has been found. The fact that Gish would be so incredibly sloppy so often makes it all the more obvious that he has no interest in presenting kids with facts, but instead is just using pretty pictures of dinosaurs to send religious propaganda. Don't kids at least deserve to be shown the real evidence? Instead of wasting money on this drivel, look for kids books on dinosaurs by such publishers as National Geographic that keep up with the REAL science and present it in an understandable format for kids.
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