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Summary: Children Who Never Grew Up
Review: It is with perpetual amazement that I find myself in while observing the thoughts and words of religious people. Can they be blamed? Perhaps they suffered a miserable upbringing. Religion can offer hope. But it also offers a way toward a distorted, twisted, and ultimately sick worldview. Imagine grown adults adamantly believing that Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny truly existing. What? You never see them? You must not have any faith!
It is deplorable and disheartening to learn of this book's availability at NPS / Grand Canyon bookstores.
The evangelical / born-again / fundamentalist is a real threat to today's cultured, civilized society. Claptrap as this is meant to be an innocous offering, but make no mistake - it is part of an agenda to move American society away from intelligence, peace, and stability toward their ultimate goal: the nuclear annihilation of our world in sick hopes of triggering the return of "Jesus Christ" and the fairy-tale "Rapture".
To some, this sounds outrageous and far-fetched. Check back in about 4 years and see where this country is socially - that is, if the zealots haven't realized their wet dream by then.
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Summary: Creationist propaganda dressed with beautiful pictures
Review: It's hard to find a place to begin with criticizing this work, since there are so many things to criticize. The biblical literalism masquerading as sham "science" ruins the enjoyable photography. And the absurd lengths that the authors go to fabricate reasons that jibe with their unprovable beliefs is disappointing as well as darkly amusing.If you wish to reinforce your creationist delusion, this book will sooth you. If you want to learn about how God actually created the Grand Canyon, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Biting Satire!
Review: Not quite the irreverent genius of something like Catch-22, or the lowbrow hillarity of the Daily Show's America, but will look great on the coffee table next to latter.
Beautiful photos too!
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Summary: Get over yourselves
Review: Okay, now the bitterness and bile has spilled over into the realms of Amazon.com now? You people on both sides of this issue need to leave your religious bickering on the sidelines and leave this space for legitimate reviews, not for theological musings (or pseudo-musings better yet). I admit, this book is silly, but not because of anyones belief system. It's just plain silly. Simple as that.
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Summary: Bogus Science!
Review: The beautiful color photos in this slick book hide bogus science. This is a religious tract, pushing one view of Creation, hiding as science. The so-called geology in this tract does not stand up to peer review --- thus the self publishing. As geology this is a fraud --- it belongs with books on religion.
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Summary: Absurd
Review: The flood in Noah's Ark carved the Grand Canyon? Come on, no adult can be this willingly ignorant. Good pictures though, too bad they are punctuated by stupid essays based on anything but fact.
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Summary: Be aware: This is not a science book
Review: The readers of this book should at the beginning be aware: this book is not a science book. This doesn¡¯t mean I said what the book told us is not true just because it is not science. Science is the collective intellectual efforts by human beings as a whole to approach the truth, not the truth itself. And a scientific approach is based on observations and experiments and various assumptions and principles.
Some of the contributors of this book have a Ph.D. degree, even some in geological sciences and have published scientific papers on prominent scientific journals. But this doest guarantee what they said about or their approach of the Grand Canyon Geology is science or scientific.
Creationists and their believers seem to be more polite and sincere, therefore attract more sympathy and support. However, again that doesn't guarantee what they said is right or scientific. Some of their argument is based on their interpretations or impressions without knowledge of basic geological principles. For example, someone pointed out in his/ her review that a deep canyon was CARVED out in 9 hours and he/she then pointed out "The horizontal layering effect which occurred there is much the same as what is seen at the Grand Canyon". He/She failed to realize that "the horizontal layering effect", or more accurately, horizontal stratification, is older/pre-existing sediment before the carving process that carved through these sediments and form a canyon, or more accurately, river channel. These exposed sediments besides the channel are called ¡°terrace¡± which is different from the rock cliff exposed at the Grand Canyon, although they look similar ¡°horizontal¡± (however both approved the Law of Original Horizontality). This is how these arguments are so ¡°convincing¡± to the lay public but non-scientific in nature. The age of the canyon landform is much younger than the age of the rocks that exposed at the Canyon outcrop (Principle of Crosscutting). And the lower the rock layer in the stratigraphic position, the older the rock layer is (Principle of Superposition).
Evolutionists, on the contrary, are some time presumptuous and a little bit arrogant. Many of them don¡¯t have the patience that Creationists have to reach out and persuade people. We ourselves must not become scientific bigots while accusing them religious extremists. We have to realize that it is nothing wrong that they have their own ideas and express them. But the problems in this book is that it pretend to be a SCIENCE book and was once put among many scientific publications in the scientific section of the Grand Canyon book store. This is misleading and intolerable. This book might have far reaching negative impact on people, especially the general public that really don¡¯t know much about geology and philosophy of science.
In a word, you can virtually choose whatever you want to believe. But GEOLOGY is based on ROCK not on FAITH. Young Earth Creationists, please don¡¯t disguises yourself under the outfit of science and please cry out: ¡°This is religion not science¡±.
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Summary: These are not reviews
Review: The reviews I've read on this book are basically not reviews of the book. They are people saying whether or not they agree with and believe the creationist standpoint or the evolutionist standpoint. Creationists give 5 stars and evolutionists give 1 star. Hilarious. Creation scientists hold the same PhD's as other scientists and their studies deserve serious consideration. I loved the book. It is real science. Anyone wanting more of the same can see the Institute for Creation Research materials.
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Summary: Scared of this book...
Review: The reviews of this book by those who believe in evolution are quite astounding. They are really scared of this book! Any book espousing the evolutionary method can be sold in a National Park bookstore, but one espousing creationism cannot? The last time I checked this was America and we had freedom of speech. The evolutionists are so paranoid about their theory that they cannot handle any opposing views. They seem so bitter about this and so hostile toward anyone with another view.
The evolutionists need to face the fact that their position is just as much of a faith-based religion as fundamental Christianity. They are believing in something (an evolutionary beginning to the world) that cannot ever be proven and requires faith to believe it.
The bottom line is that I believe in a God who could have created the world anyway He wanted to, and He also could have formed the Grand Canyon anyway He wanted to. And guess what? I am not an idiot, or ignorant, or mindless, as many of you would like to believe. You need to get over yourselves and your supposed superior intelligence. It really is getting old.
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Summary: Very Excellent Book Offering an Atlernative View
Review: Those who adhere to a naturalistic, evolutionary paradigm will not be happy with this book, because it offers people a look at alternative interpretations of science. Many naturalistic evolutionists want to be people's brains for them, and thus they campaign heavily against refreshing books like "Grand Canyon: A Different View." The photographs of the Grand Canyon are amazing, and the content is written mostly by scientists which hold doctorate degrees in various fields of science. The book indeed offers solid science based on the hypothesis that the Canyon was formed relatively quickly by vast amounts of water. The evidence for this view really is quite solid, and this book gives a nice summary of it. It's too bad that people want to censor books like this, and trash them simply because it disagrees with their deeply help presuppositions about the Canyon. I think books like this one are desperately needed today, as more and more we are seeing the naturalistic evolutionists attempting to quiet the Creation movement and force people to see only one side. They would rather be people's brains for them. I urge you to not let that happen, and order this book. It will allow you to have a balanced look at all evidence, and then you with your own mind can decide which position you believe. This book deserves no less than five stars. Anyone who gives it one or two stars is being ridiculous, obviously, and are the kind of people that I have described in this review.
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