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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
Wonderful synopsis of current thought
Many of us are on the quest for God, and often you wonder, when challenged with evolution and other 'scientifically established' results if your inner thoughts are so wrong. Asking questions, finding answers, and inner whisperings are all satisfied in this book. Scient...
Many of us are on the quest for God, and often you wonder, when challenged with evolution and other 'scientifically established' results if your inner thoughts are so wrong. Asking questions, finding answers, and inner whisperings are all satisfied in this book. Scientists are beginning to realize, with excellent reasoning, that for us to be on this quest, there has to be something that exsisted before us, that created us and the quest we are on. The miracles of life, the exact conditions that make our universe and our life, could not have been accidental, nor could the complete equipment that we have, which gives us the ability to make the quest for God. If you are on the quest for God, this is an easy book to read, with lots of references for further enriched and in depth reading.
posted by Anonymous on April 25, 2004
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
Nothing New Here
This book is effectively the same literature that is found in other Intelligent Design/ Discovery Institute materials. The arguments are the same, just in new packaging. This book is almost solely scientific. It would be interesting to see what Strobel thinks about the ...
This book is effectively the same literature that is found in other Intelligent Design/ Discovery Institute materials. The arguments are the same, just in new packaging. This book is almost solely scientific. It would be interesting to see what Strobel thinks about the theological implications of ID. Strobel tries to align the Intelligent Design theory to the Genesis creation account, but I am unconvinced. There is a growing body of scientific evidence that disproves the arguments here and there are logical answers to the questions they pose that are not addressed. Overall, not an earth shattering book. If you purchasing it, you probably already agree with what is in the book, and more importantly want to believe in the arguments they make.
posted by GradStudentCO on March 28, 2010
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Anonymous
Posted December 30, 2011
Fallacious arguments
He claims to argue from an atheist point of view however when he discusses the matter at hand with the expert he does not make much of a challenge to the discussion. Such as discussions on evolution, they come to conclude that life could not have become as is without a creator. Ignoring that is not the realm of evolution at all. When they talk about 'complex' life they do not see any way they could have come about via natural selection. They do not bring up the dna evidence for the relationships of species.
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Anonymous
Posted December 12, 2011
Junk
Lee makes no new arguements for the case for god. Same old lame arguments.
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Anonymous
Posted April 27, 2004
The demise of reason
There are few science books written by Christian fundamentalists that I would bother to pick up. Sometimes curiosity gets the better of me. That is not a good thing. Its like when you have seen a really bad movie and lamented the lost time you could have used profitably. Save yourself the trouble, this book misrepresents science, It is highly selective, and does not provide information from scientists expert in their fields, only those selective of supporting arguments for an 'American style' Christian fundamentalism. It is the kind of book that makes your intellect feel dirty. Enough to drive you to intellectual asceticism. Ouch. Read truly inspired and enlightening science books instead. The books listed will show many cases of self organising phenomena.
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bluesy51
Posted March 27, 2012
real disappointment
I am a Christian so I thought that this book would help increase my faith and I could learn something new. What Strobel attempts to do is take interviews with a science minded Christian and use his "views" as scientific evidence for the existence of God. I felt that it was a insult to my intelligence. I guess it just goes to show you that science and faith don't always mix well. The author finds someone to interview and suddenly he is a believer because of the "sceintific evidence", which frankly he doesn't prove he just talks about his scientific ideas. Much a the book goes somthing like this: " Well this particular organism is so complex so there is no way it could have evolved, therefore it was put here by God." I mean, come on.
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Anonymous
Posted November 27, 2005
So very Sad
Lee falls into the exact same fallacy that so many atheists do. Science is by nature physical, in that it deals with the cause effect relationship of the physical. Philisophy is more abstract in that it deals mainly on the non-physical(Morals, Political philisophy, God exct) Theirfor common sense tells us that as God is non-physical in nature and not subject to the laws of science(as he made them) Science can never prove or disprove God, only philisophy can. Also as a practicing Catholic I wish I could tell Lee that it was St. Augustine who first came up with the Basic Idea of evolution in the 400's A.D. In fact it was not untill Fundamentalism appeared(as a result of the Protestant fallacy of Sola Scriptura) that any sereious theologian beleived that Genisis was to be taken Literally.
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Anonymous
Posted April 10, 2005
Our future looks bleak
Thank you Randall for getting to the truth behind this book. It's a shame so many people are easily mislead into thinking this way. I recommend you go read a real science book, because I can sum up the scientific evidence for god right here: '...' There, I just saved you a bunch of time and money.
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