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Summary: Anyone can easily follow this.
Review: **** It's been said that the two books the devil wants people to read the least are Genesis and Revelation. Many think you can either believe science or the Bible, not both. However, the case can be made that you need more faith to believe in macroevolution than in creation. Take the fact that from nothing comes nothing, the lack of transitional fossils, or the outright lies of Darwinism, among other points, and the reader is left with the truth. To support his case, a variety of theologians and scientists including Michael Behe, Hugh Ross, Norm Geisler, William Lane Craig, and Phillip Johnson, etc. The writing is done in lay terms, or when it's not, explained, so anyone can follow it without problems. It is both interesting and informative, demonstrating that you need not bend Genesis to fit science, but that science supports Genesis. ****Reviewed by Amanda Killgore
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Summary: An Easy to Read Primer on Why It Matters
Review: Ron Rhodes, President of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries, has another 10 things you need to know book. Rhodes, whether one agrees with him or not, has a very effective writing style that takes complex material and lays it out in a simple and easy format. To that degree, this book is very effective. His chapter, "The Creation vs Evolution Debate: Why It Matters?" deals effectively with the stereotypes and caricatures often made about creationists by evolutionists. However, a note must be made about the section on "Darwinism and Social Injustice." While it is true that Darwin himself had a narrow view of blacks as inferior to whites, he incorrectly provides the full backdrop on the three-fifths of a person count in respect to slaves in the United States. It has been effectively argued elsewhere that the limiting of slaves to be counted as 3/5 of a person was to restrict the South's ability to receive more representative seats at the federal level. Otherwise this chapter is very good, but a little too short. His philosophical approach on the "Assumptions of Evolution" also highlights many naturalistic presuppositions in an easy reading style. Another strength of the book is that he mentions the differing views among creations themselves and intelligent design theorists. Although I think he leans towards young earth creationists and stacks the deck in their favor, he does attempt to show there is another side that have good, well reasoned arguments for their positions. The book is low on scientific details and again, like many young earth creationists, I think he incorrectly deals with the correlation between entropy and biological evolution. This is something many young earth creationists do and I think they also fail at times to deal effectively with closed universe and open universe theories. A nice primer those who lack a lot scientific knowledge. This is probably a very good book for youth groups as an introduction into the subject. I do encourage all who start with this book to go on to more difficult texts because this book is very basic in its presentation. There are much better books on the subject, but they are for people who have more knowledge about the subject.
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Summary: An Easy to Read Primer on Why It Matters
Review: Ron Rhodes, President of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries, has another 10 things you need to know book. Rhodes, whether one agrees with him or not, has a very effective writing style that takes complex material and lays it out in a simple and easy format. To that degree, this book is very effective. His chapter, "The Creation vs Evolution Debate: Why It Matters?" deals effectively with the stereotypes and caricatures often made about creationists by evolutionists. However, a note must be made about the section on "Darwinism and Social Injustice." While it is true that Darwin himself had a narrow view of blacks as inferior to whites, he incorrectly provides the full backdrop on the three-fifths of a person count in respect to slaves in the United States. It has been effectively argued elsewhere that the limiting of slaves to be counted as 3/5 of a person was to restrict the South's ability to receive more representative seats at the federal level. Otherwise this chapter is very good, but a little too short. His philosophical approach on the "Assumptions of Evolution" also highlights many naturalistic presuppositions in an easy reading style. Another strength of the book is that he mentions the differing views among creations themselves and intelligent design theorists. Although I think he leans towards young earth creationists and stacks the deck in their favor, he does attempt to show there is another side that have good, well reasoned arguments for their positions. The book is low on scientific details and again, like many young earth creationists, I think he incorrectly deals with the correlation between entropy and biological evolution. This is something many young earth creationists do and I think they also fail at times to deal effectively with closed universe and open universe theories. A nice primer those who lack a lot scientific knowledge. This is probably a very good book for youth groups as an introduction into the subject. I do encourage all who start with this book to go on to more difficult texts because this book is very basic in its presentation. There are much better books on the subject, but they are for people who have more knowledge about the subject.
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