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Creation and Evolution 101: A Guide to Science and the Bible in Plain Language
The Christianity 101™ series provides easy-to-understand explanations about the Christian walk in a style that invites believers and seekers to discover God, His Word, and His promises for daily living. With their distinctively winsome style, Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz explore the essentials of creation and evolution and offer fascinating evidence of God's hand at work. They show how God's purpose in creation brings meaning to readers' lives, and they answer such important questions as Questions for reflection and discussion make this user-friendly guide perfect for individual or group use. Rerelease of Bruce & Stan's Guide to How It All Began
288 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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August 11, 2011
Recently, the investigation into creation, evolution and intelligent design have been taking up much of my time. This has not been an easy undertaking as there are many perspectives on these issues and mounds of data to wade through. The debate on this issue has been extremely heated for as long as I can remember (I’m only 28) and it seems like this debate is only going to continue. This book is a great overview of the issues (if you don’t mind the fact that you are mostly going to get the Christian side of the argument).
The book leans heavily on the research of Dr. Hugh Ross (whom I personally highly respect, but I know many “young-earthers” are not fans of his). The book gives people a clear and easy to understand overview of issues like irreducible complexity, the Cambrian explosion etc. One of the most compelling parts of the book can be found in chapter eight that shows, visually, how improbable evolution based on the massive amount of new phyla (kinds of animals) “evolve” in such a short period of time, which Darwin himself said that would suggest that his theory was incorrect. The “exponential phyla tree” vs “phyla barcode” is a devastating visual that shows just how incomplete the fossil record is OR just how wrong Darwin’s theory is in general.
One shortcoming that this book has (and it is a big one) is a massive lack of end notes (there are sections at the end of each chapter that give book suggestions for further study but they don’t really do much for the specifics they address in the chapters). This is really disappointing considering how important end notes are in technical books like these. It also handicaps the reader for delving into further study on specific points in the book because the reader has no idea where that specific information came from. I understand this is supposed to be an introductory level text, but the lack of end notes is still inexcusable in my view.
Overall, I give it 4/5 stars for a good explanation of the topics, but I can not give a book like this 5 stars with such a huge omission of end notes. I would recommend this for someone who just wants a quick and easy overview of the issues, but if you really want to get deep into the topics, you should look elsewhere.
God bless.
-Neil
The book leans heavily on the research of Dr. Hugh Ross (whom I personally highly respect, but I know many “young-earthers” are not fans of his). The book gives people a clear and easy to understand overview of issues like irreducible complexity, the Cambrian explosion etc. One of the most compelling parts of the book can be found in chapter eight that shows, visually, how improbable evolution based on the massive amount of new phyla (kinds of animals) “evolve” in such a short period of time, which Darwin himself said that would suggest that his theory was incorrect. The “exponential phyla tree” vs “phyla barcode” is a devastating visual that shows just how incomplete the fossil record is OR just how wrong Darwin’s theory is in general.
One shortcoming that this book has (and it is a big one) is a massive lack of end notes (there are sections at the end of each chapter that give book suggestions for further study but they don’t really do much for the specifics they address in the chapters). This is really disappointing considering how important end notes are in technical books like these. It also handicaps the reader for delving into further study on specific points in the book because the reader has no idea where that specific information came from. I understand this is supposed to be an introductory level text, but the lack of end notes is still inexcusable in my view.
Overall, I give it 4/5 stars for a good explanation of the topics, but I can not give a book like this 5 stars with such a huge omission of end notes. I would recommend this for someone who just wants a quick and easy overview of the issues, but if you really want to get deep into the topics, you should look elsewhere.
God bless.
-Neil
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