Foolish Faith

Rating:
Summary: Falls Flat.
Review: Foolish Faith falls Flat. In its largest chapter it begins to fall apart. I would not recomend it.

Its starts off by Misrepresenting the Theory of Evolution, by saying that it has something to do with the beginnings of life , life from non life. This is not true.

It goes from there to confusing abiogenesis with spontaneous generation, Spontaneous generation, has been shown to be false, but abiogenesis hasn't, thus confusing the two is also confusing the reader.

After that it goes on to tell only Half the story about select Radiometric dating. If the entire story was told, it would paint a different picture. A quick example of this is how it is Expected that K/Ar dating will return bad dates when dating young rocks, and there are checks and other tools to find the correct dates, but none were listed, nor was it listed that they incorrectly used the K/Ar dating method. Any real scientist would expect to get bad results when he incorrectly uses a dating method, and would know how to fix it, yet the reader is never told this. The reader is mislead to believe that the methods are faulty, when in fact they were just used wrong.

Finally (at least for this review), we go to chance, where bad analogies are used that once again, confuse fiction with reality. The 747 from a tornado in a Junkyard analogy is false. The analogy suggests pure chance. However Abiogenesis is Not pure chance, nor is Evolution. Both work on none intelligent mechanisms to do what they have done. These mechanisms are not pure chance, and thus the analogy goes out the window, but not before the reader is taught bad information.

This book started out to be an ok look at christian faith, and quickly became misinformation and half truths. When one is writing a book, especially one with god in it, one should do more research into the topics as to not mislead, misinform and only present half of the story to its readers. Because of this I would not recommend this book to anyone as its largest chapter only spreads misinformation.

Rating:
Summary: Falls Flat.
Review: Foolish Faith falls Flat. In its largest chapter it begins to fall apart. I would not recomend it.

Its starts off by Misrepresenting the Theory of Evolution, by saying that it has something to do with the beginnings of life , life from non life. This is not true.

It goes from there to confusing abiogenesis with spontaneous generation, Spontaneous generation, has been shown to be false, but abiogenesis hasn't, thus confusing the two is also confusing the reader.

After that it goes on to tell only Half the story about select Radiometric dating. If the entire story was told, it would paint a different picture. A quick example of this is how it is Expected that K/Ar dating will return bad dates when dating young rocks, and there are checks and other tools to find the correct dates, but none were listed, nor was it listed that they incorrectly used the K/Ar dating method. Any real scientist would expect to get bad results when he incorrectly uses a dating method, and would know how to fix it, yet the reader is never told this. The reader is mislead to believe that the methods are faulty, when in fact they were just used wrong.

Finally (at least for this review), we go to chance, where bad analogies are used that once again, confuse fiction with reality. The 747 from a tornado in a Junkyard analogy is false. The analogy suggests pure chance. However Abiogenesis is Not pure chance, nor is Evolution. Both work on none intelligent mechanisms to do what they have done. These mechanisms are not pure chance, and thus the analogy goes out the window, but not before the reader is taught bad information.

This book started out to be an ok look at christian faith, and quickly became misinformation and half truths. When one is writing a book, especially one with god in it, one should do more research into the topics as to not mislead, misinform and only present half of the story to its readers. Because of this I would not recommend this book to anyone as its largest chapter only spreads misinformation.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting and Thought-Provoking
Review: I found Foolish Faith to be one of the most interesting and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time. While it is clear that the material in Foolish Faith is presenting a certain kind of religious argument and is building toward a particular conclusion, the book is never polemical in the off-putting way that much religious writing can be for non-religious readers like myself. The author's well-articulated and well-documented arguments are not easily dismissed.

Rating:
Summary: Foolish Faith Falls Flat
Review: In its largest chapter it begins to fall apart by not telling the whole truth.

It starts off by not correctly explaining Evolution. It goes from there to confusing abiogenesis with spontaneous generation, They are not the same thing, and a bit more research might have told them that.

After that it goes on to tell only Half the story about select Radiometric dating. If the entire story was told, it would paint a different picture. However, they decide not too, and leave the reader with a misunderstanding of how radiometric dating works and how scientists use it.

Finally (at least for this review), we go to chance, where bad analogies are used, that once again, confuse fiction with reality. They use the old analogy of abiogenesis and evolution being like if a tornado hit a junkyard and built a 747. Again misinformation from the book, as this is not an example of either. The analogy is pure chance, and abiogenesis and Evolution do not work on pure chance.

This book started out to be an ok look at comparing the christian faith with others, and quickly became misinformation and half truths. When one writes a book about God, I would expect them to check up on what they are writing on, so they don't spread false information. This book, however, did not do that, and in such is not a good way to represent a faith.

Foolish Faith Falls Flat because it tries to pass false information off as truth, under the name of god, and No one should accept that.

Rating:
Summary: Foolish Faith Falls Flat
Review: In its largest chapter it begins to fall apart by not telling the whole truth.

It starts off by not correctly explaining Evolution. It goes from there to confusing abiogenesis with spontaneous generation, They are not the same thing, and a bit more research might have told them that.

After that it goes on to tell only Half the story about select Radiometric dating. If the entire story was told, it would paint a different picture. However, they decide not too, and leave the reader with a misunderstanding of how radiometric dating works and how scientists use it.

Finally (at least for this review), we go to chance, where bad analogies are used, that once again, confuse fiction with reality. They use the old analogy of abiogenesis and evolution being like if a tornado hit a junkyard and built a 747. Again misinformation from the book, as this is not an example of either. The analogy is pure chance, and abiogenesis and Evolution do not work on pure chance.

This book started out to be an ok look at comparing the christian faith with others, and quickly became misinformation and half truths. When one writes a book about God, I would expect them to check up on what they are writing on, so they don't spread false information. This book, however, did not do that, and in such is not a good way to represent a faith.

Foolish Faith Falls Flat because it tries to pass false information off as truth, under the name of god, and No one should accept that.

Rating:
Summary: AWESOME READ -- Accurate and Up-to-date
Review: The accuracy and honesty presented in this book will challenge even the most ardent atheist or evolutionist, and will give direction to those who find themselves soul-searching. This book presents one of the most unbiased cases in the debate about the existence of God and the claims of Jesus. Among the excellent analogies and quotes used are those from the world-renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, and the leading evolutionist Richard Dawkins. Foolish Faith is an excellent read -- accurate, never boring and always compelling.