The Collapse of Evolution

Rating:
Summary: Not any good
Review: I am a creationist (I believe in old earth, and I do not consider myself to be a scientific creationist, because creationism can not be scientific! I believe in God, but the basis for my belief is not science, but faith...)

The arguments against evolution are not well made. In the first chapter, Huse talks about how nature is complicated, but does not proberly explain the argument of irreduceable complexity.

The Bombardier Beetle argument has been refuted by Richard Dawkins!

The Earths magnetic field argument (is to demonstrate a young earth) does not mention that the mesurements of the magnetic field are more accurate today than when they started, nor that the magnetic field has been realtively constant lately according to measurements. I think the reason is not dishonesty, but ignorance.

I am sure I could make a better case for young earth creationism myself, even though I am not a young-earth creationist.

The book gets two stars rather than one: Because I was not bored when I read it, and because I know that the intention was good: to promote christianity

Rating:
Summary: Collapse of Evolution
Review: The book was well written and easy to underestand. I think that is one reason why some have not liked it. For a piece of work to be good it does not have to talk over the heads of its readers. I work around a lot of scientists and many have phds. and they speak and use simple lanuage to convey ideas as well as recieve them. When I first read this book I did not understand how radio carbon dating was established, but it blew my mind when it came out so simply in this expose'. Since then(when I read the book) I've seen other authors with the same argument. It is very strange that people either love the book or hate it with very few in the middle. Perhaps that is because its Christianity really at the witness stand, not evolution. I also find it very strange that people of faith who say they hold to the Scriptures and Christ as the Savior take it on faith without considering that the Bible is a book written with facts and is filled with facts. For faith to stand it has to have facts. Faith in faith is not possible to lay any ground work worth holding to. Faith is founded on fact, not the other way around.
I lent the book to some who were evolutionists and they dismissed it with the same arguments. On thing that evolution cannot explain is why creation. Another thing it cannot explain is the how of creation. The amount of technical knowledge to creat simple cells is beyond the knowledge of man. A simple painting needs a painter, a building needs a designer and builder and the internet needs a whole lotta people to make it work. So why argue from an indefensible position that evolution (a theory) made anything. I recommend this book to every believer in Christ so they may get the argument which is not given in today's secular education system.

Rating:
Summary: Staggering ignorance
Review: This book proves much, but not in the way its author intended.

Instead of refuting evolution through a decidedly disingenuous "conspiracy theory" that all geology and most physical science are contrived constructs to support evolution, this book simply proves that religious extremism continues to be the enemy of knowledge. Any person with a relatively basic background in science can readily decipher the lies and distortions presented.

In the place of combatting ignorance, a reading of this book compounds it. The author makes his his mind up at the start, and in a collection of faulty syllogisms and ignorance of reality, simply shows that lack of understanding in a field comprises no basis upon which to explain it. Save both your time and money, and read something productive and logical.