Origins, Linking Science and Scripture

by Ariel Roth

If you accept the biblical account of origins, do you have to reject science? Ariel Roth argues that taken together, science and religion give us a more complete and sensible understanding of the world around us.

Genres: Science

384 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Benjamin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This has been the best creationist piece of literature I've read so far. Roth seems to be honest in his approach to the data. His chapters on the philosophy of science are appreciated, and his comments on the relation between science and religion. I thought the sections on erosion rates and the age of the earth were good. The bit on Noah's flood and the geologic column are I think the most difficult for the creationist and least adequately treated. To account for the sorting of fossils in the column as a result of the weight of animals during the flood or ability to climb to higher ground is difficult to accept. I also don't know what to make of the section on dating methods. The argon-potassium clocks are very powerful in that they are "zeroed" after a volcanic eruption, but then Roth says the gas leaks may make these clocks inaccurate. I don't know what to think of it all now. I'm also not sure how satisfied I am with his chapters on the fossils and transition fossils. Nonetheless, a worthy contribution to the creation/evolution debate.

[Milica Trajković · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is pure creationism. For every example he first talks how scientific methods are too unreliable to prove evolution but than he use the same results made with the same methods he said are unreliable to prove creation. Like this is not how science work. If you think some method is unreliable it means that results are worth nothing in any context not just in ones you dont like.

[Rosivaldo Alves · Rating 2 out of 5]

Livro para já convertidos ao criacionismo. Incapaz de defender sua tese com sólida evidência científica, seu argumento central resume-se a expressar dúvidas anódinas sobre o conjunto de evidências da evolução e sobre a ciência como um todo.