It Couldn't Just Happen : Fascinating Facts About God's World

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Summary: Excellent resource for YOU and your children to understand
Review: After having read many different books on creationism, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Mount St. Helen's, Dating Techniques, Fossil records, etc; I was disappointed that a book claiming to offer biblical answers does not do that. The bible along with scientific evidence offers the answers we need (at least has done a far better job than the Darwinian evolutionists.) Another ploy to cofuse the masses and promote the only religion the schools allow...secular humanism.

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Summary: An argument always is brilliant . . . until it's refuted.
Review: 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.

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Summary: Great tool for building a "Creationist" foundation!
Review: First of all realize that this book is written for Kids ages 9-12.

Now I would like for you to also realize that this 30+ year old learned tons while teaching from it to a Junior High Sunday School class!

The year I taught this, we had 18 kids and half of their parents purchased the book after the class. It was such a hit that we are teaching it again 2 years later.

This book does a wonderful job at setting a foundation from which kids can build on and learn from.

Lawrence Williams blends the laws of physics, theories on origins of the universe, "true science" vs. "junk science", nature, the Divine Will of God, Biblical references, and tons of real world examples into a brilliant, easy to read source for learning to understand, explain, and defend Creationism.

We know that our Children are going to learn the theory of Evolution at one point or another in their life. Instead of hiding in the sand and hoping they'll either a.) Not be exposed to it at all. b.) Learn it from a weak teacher. Or c.) Somehow be able to formulate an irrefutable argument without really learning about physics, science, nature, the Bible, and how they all work together to support and prove Creation.

Why don't we add a "d."? "Build them a strong Creationist foundation, so that they not only understand their faith, but they can defend it and teach others also."

This book does just that! Pick it up for your kid, but don't be surprised if you read it also. Better yet, use it yourself for a "Family" Bible Study!

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Summary: Great tool for building a "Creationist" foundation!
Review: First of all realize that this book is written for Kids ages 9-12.

Now I would like for you to also realize that this 30+ year old learned tons while teaching from it to a Junior High Sunday School class!

The year I taught this, we had 18 kids and half of their parents purchased the book after the class. It was such a hit that we are teaching it again 2 years later.

This book does a wonderful job at setting a foundation from which kids can build on and learn from.

Lawrence Williams blends the laws of physics, theories on origins of the universe, "true science" vs. "junk science", nature, the Divine Will of God, Biblical references, and tons of real world examples into a brilliant, easy to read source for learning to understand, explain, and defend Creationism.

We know that our Children are going to learn the theory of Evolution at one point or another in their life. Instead of hiding in the sand and hoping they'll either a.) Not be exposed to it at all. b.) Learn it from a weak teacher. Or c.) Somehow be able to formulate an irrefutable argument without really learning about physics, science, nature, the Bible, and how they all work together to support and prove Creation.

Why don't we add a "d."? "Build them a strong Creationist foundation, so that they not only understand their faith, but they can defend it and teach others also."

This book does just that! Pick it up for your kid, but don't be surprised if you read it also. Better yet, use it yourself for a "Family" Bible Study!

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Summary: Horrible misrepresentation of science.
Review: 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.