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Summary: Impressive follow up to The Fingerprint of God
Review: Dr. Ross does a fantastic job presenting the latest scientific discoveries and their implications.
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Summary: Lousy Science
Review: Hugh Ross is at his best when discussing astronomy and cosmology, as his immediate field is astrophysics. His discussion of COBE and other recent developments in astronomy is insightful. However, I can't recommend this book on that basis alone. His primary thesis is that the discoveries of modern science reveal not just any God or any Creator, but the God of the Bible in particular. Rossargues that many parameters of the Universe are fine-tuned to support life, but many of his claims are simply false. For example, it is not true that if the electromagnetic coupling constant were just a little smaller, electrons would not bind to atoms. Ross's claim that life couldn't exist if the lifetime of the proton were significantly different from 10^32 years requires knowledge far beyond what we currently have, such as a well-established and experimentally verified theory of proton decay. Most of the quotations that Ross cites asserting the fine-tuning of the universe are philosophical speculations or personal interpretations of the data. One should not take seriously any claim that science has proven the existence of any Creator (let alone the God of the Bible) until someone publishes in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific publications (e.g.. the Physical Review journals) a paper specifically concluding the existence of the Creator. The paper would analyze the data carefully and show that the author has not made any unwarranted assumption, and has considered alternative possibilities. Ross's discussion of quantum gravity and the odds of life forming (which parallels discredited Creationist arguments) indicates that he does not really understand them. His interpretation of Biblical quotes is simply pathological. It is beyond me how anyone can assert with a straight face that "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" and "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible" refers to God being outside our own experience of three spacial dimensions and one time dimension. Ross's claim reminds me of Woody Allen's parody of prophecy, "Two nations will go to war, but only one will win."
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Summary: A god or the god?
Review: I browsed through several chapters of the book, it bascially states by probability argument that the chance we exist today by random variation is really slim without an intelligent designer. However, the author in his first chapters set out to prove that the designer is not just a god, but the god of the Bible, and the god of the Christian faith, and the Bible is as flawless as any physical laws we know now. In the later chapters, he fails to address the accuracy of the Bible by providing concrete experiemtal evidence or refute most of the inacurrate claims in the Bible.
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