It's a Young World After All

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Summary: evidence for a young universe for the average person
Review: As you read this review, please know that I am scientifically trained (electrical engineer with much quantum machanics under his belt) and theologically trained (M.Div. from seminary). This book is but one from a group of so-called creation-scientists. As a minister/scientist, I have to say this book, and others like it, are really, really bad science and bad theology. I believe that science and theology must go together - and that they very well do together in a beautiful and meaningful way. But to do that, one has to have a mature enough faith to realize that the Bible is not a record of scientific fact - the Bible is TRUTH, but not FACT, and there's a big difference between the two. This book is unimaginably wrong. The author attempts to show us that the Earth is actually less than 10,000 years old. This wouldn't be so bad, but the author is also a professor (of psychology) who teaches at an instution of higher learning (Wichita State University at the time he wrote this book). This is simply appalling - he has to go through some absolutely bizarre and circuitous routes to "prove" his point. These are scientific shennanigans that any junior high science student would be able to pick up on as just plain wrong. I am saddened that Christians are out there who are so literally married to the idea that the earth (and the universe) can't be more than about 5,700 years old that they re-arrange and re-number scientifically valid data to "prove" their point. There is absolutely nothing theologically wrong with admitting that the earth is billions of years old, and that the universe is even older than that. Please stop trying to force science to fit some misinterpreted Biblical claim (a claim which the Bible doesn't even make, which anyone who reads the Bible closely will realize). There is some truly valid science and theology being done, especially from the Center for Theology and Natural Science at the Pacific School of Religion. If you want theological science, go there - their scientists are able to see and interpret scientific data in the way that it must be interpreted, and are not clouded by forcing data to fit a Biblical model which doesn't even exist to begin with.

Read this book if you are interested in what the creation-scientists are doing. But don't read it becuase you are looking for scientific method and process. It ain't that at all. This book serves only to further make Christians look like a bunch of blind, dogmatic, uncreative charlatans to their non-Christian peers.

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Summary: evidence for a young universe for the average person
Review: Evidence for a young earth is presented in an easy-to-understand style. The author clearly presents the evidence along with analogies to help the reader understand. He does a good job of staying focused on his goal of supporting his claims with science. Since the book was written to appeal to the common person, specific studies are not cited or discussed in great detail. However, it is a good overview and a good place to begin further investigation. For an in-depth exploration of evidence to support a younger earth than textbooks claim you would need to look elsewhere.

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Summary: The pure scientist won't listen, this book is good
Review: It is obvious that the evolutionist think this is a poor book & biblical creationist think it is a good general reference with some scientific bases. It is interesting PhD Alan Guth(MIT Weisskopf Professor of Physics), PhD João Magueijo(Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation ) and some of the other Big Bang founders and supporters now say that matter must have traveled faster than light in the early past. They know that with the size of the universe and the time since creation, that for matter to reach the outer realms of the universe in that time that the 186,000 miles or 300 million meters /second has to be exceeded. We have in science, gone from light traveling at infinite speeds to a finite speed in about the 1600s to being fixed at 186,000 in the early 20TH & now seemingly fixed in our time but infinite in the early creation thus allowing the great expanse and distribution of light as we now see it. (...)

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Summary: A must read
Review: This book is one of the best books I have read in my life. I just read this book a couple of months ago, and I think it was great. Mr. Ackerman points out the flaws in the evolution theory and explains everything very clearly. I recommend Christians to read and to give this book away to unsaved family and friends as a witnessing tool.

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Summary: Valid science which points to the theory of a 'young' Earth.
Review: This books discusses scientific issues; moon dust, the speed of light, etc., in layman's terms, which expose evidence pointing t a young planet. It also cites the evolutionary Counter-Arguments. Very readable. Inserts one scripture verse in the introduction, but book nothing of a 'religious' book, it is purely science and reason.