The Book of Garden Secrets

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Summary: Wonderful vegetable growing guide
Review: I keep reaching for my copy of The Book of Garden Secrets both when planting & growing my vegetables. (Looks looks like there's confusion between a couple books with the same name - the other dealing with the Garden of Eden. The one by Patent & Bilderback is about Vegetable Gardening.) The book contains key information like germinating & growing temperatures as well as interesting facts about how vegetables grow. I find the "whys" for basic growing rules particularly interesting. For example, corn grows like a telescoping fishing pole after tassling so the space between the leaves can maximize the sunlight. This links to critical water & nutrient availability during the same time.

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Summary: Insightful and exhaustively documented
Review: Professor Young has done a superb job in collating how different scholars have responded to the Old Testament flood account through the centuries in the light of extra-Biblical data. This detailed study was largely in response to the rise of support in the last 40 years among some (not all) Christians for the global as an explanation for much of the geological record. Young shows repeatedly how this recent phenomenon is out of step with the way Christian scholars have dealt with extra-Biblical data over the last two millennia. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the interaction between science and Christianity, in the history of geology, and in modern young earth creationism.

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Summary: Of Limited Overall Value
Review: The author does a fairly good job describing the history of the church's understanding of the Noachian Deluge. With few exceptions, the Flood had been accepted as universal. Then, in response to the rationalistic preconceptions of recent centuries, the church has largely backed away from Biblical truth, and settled for a local-flood compromise. Sadly, Davis Young, the author, himself is part of this compromising-evangelical community. In particular, his claims that the Ark could never have carried all of the world's animals is patently incorrect. See Woodmorappe, John. 1996. Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study.