Don Stewart (1)

I read their Answers... as a young man and recently re-read it. I plowed through to this one. I remember seeing it as a teen, but never read it. The first part is about the Bible, and should've been tacked onto Answers..., but the bulk of the book, over one hundred pages, is devoted to evolution and creationism. The book should've been devoted expressly to that, as it reads as if it is two books smushed into one. The section on evolution is dated and geared mainly toward picking apart the flaws of Darwinian evolution and uniformitarian geology, only slightly pushing young earth creationism and a worldwide Noachian flood. (This section is dated because most of it rests on very old texts in geology and biology, and modern day scientists would fault it for this.) This section of the book is not going to really change the minds of those predisposed to believe the Bible and its history is bunk. It will buttress the minds of those already predisposed to think something is wrong with evolution.… (més)

One of the most execrable books I've ever read, it averaged, by my count, one serious scientific error or misrepresentation every 1.5 pages. It is as much a bad attack on science as a poor defense of Christianity. I give it 1/2 star because some of the errors in the book were so egregious they made me laugh.

I also suggest Infidel.org's review of this book:

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/james_still/reasons_consider_christianity...… (més)