Section 1 of 5 In The Beginning Review
Dear Fans Of Atheist Blogger,
As Adrian has let you know, he’s on holiday and has asked S. A. Alenthony and myself to guest blog in his absence. A little background on myself before I get started, my name is Samantha, twenty-something from Chicago anywhere. I’m a self-described avid reader, critical thinker, and video game addict. I like meeting creative people who have strong opinions of their own. Sometimes I visit museums, occasionally find myself on the internet, and I found my doppelganger when I wasn’t ever trying.
My doppelganger and I have very much in common, we even share the same name, we only differ in two ways – he’s a he and he believes in Jesus. For us to have so much in common and only have it divided by such a harsh difference seemed to be a terrible shame. I am (and as is he) very open to each other’s points of views and continue to challenge each other in new and exciting ways. This time, he takes the cake.
About a month ago, I thought that maybe my doppelganger was not informed as well as he could have been since he had a different background from mine, so I took him to the Field Museum of Natural History. Where else is such a brief time could someone absorb the knowledge they did not possess?
Sam vs. Sam
“Which of us is the evil twin?” my doppelganger began to ponder after our visit to the museum. He thought, “What if I send her my beliefs and my understanding to her? Sam, why isn’t my side taught in public schools.”
“Tell educators, publishers, museums, and the media to educate themselves and stop perpetuating misinformation and bad science.”
You would have thought that last statement was something that I said, but it’s actually In The Beginning (Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood) by Walt Brown, Ph.D. preface, sent curiosity of my doppelganger. You can see it on Amazon as well.
Now, as I begin to read this book, the introduction mentions the book contains three parts: Part I – The Scientific Case for Creation, Part II – Foundations of the Great Deep, Part III Frequently Asked Questions.
This will be the first section of my project and during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th I will take an unbiased approach to what the book is suggesting during it’s three separate parts and finally during my 5th and last section of this guest blog spot, I will critique and use your critiques from comments you posted on the book’s message.
Please keep in mind when referencing this book it refers to it’s intended reader to be anyone interested in the subject in the origin of life. The ultimate goal of this book, as from reading the introduction, is to educate public school teachers.
A challenge had begun. The first challenge being, even though I am an accomplished reader, how I was going to swallow over 400 pages of creationism. It’s a lot easier when one-sentence epitaphs are yelled from across the internet at you, but 400 pages of my undivided attention, this was going to be a big one.
Wish me luck, a sample of the next post, here is the first diagram on the first page of chapter one.
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"Noah's ark probably exists,"
Good luck controlling your gag reflux while swallowing 400 pages of that…
It really should be interesting, as long as you don't have as overdeveloped a gag "reflux" as Neil. I look forward to reading your analysis of the book, although I would suggest checking your syntax before posting. Some of the sentences above seemed a little confused.
Ah, good stuff. Love that chart. So, "theories for the evolution of the solar system and universe are unscientific"? So, science has science wrong?
And the Bible's explanation for the solar system and universe is more scientific?
This is one reason I don't even bother listening to religious types. They use arguments like this that collapse in on themselves with little pressure.
The thing that really drives me insane from reading that sort of book is the typical method is to present some complex and incredibly unlikely scenario as being scientific, nevermind the huge inherent failings and the fact there is absolutely no way you could possibly believe it had happened like that from the evidence without relying primarily on the word of a bronze age cult leader.
The other thing I hate is the way that they like to pretend that the fact that most rocks are from marine environments means means "great flood!!!", I don't know how they fit the occasional appearance of non marine rocks like sand dunes, mud-cracks and fossil soil into this view, although I think the above statement may apply. I wonder if the Q&A will answer why it seems that the great flood drowned such a huge proportion of marine organisms.
It really should be interesting?
In order for it to be interesting, it would probably have to do something that no Creationist/Intelligent Design book has done before…actually include some real science, and I really doubt that, seeing as Walt Brown's work has been disregarded as pure fantasy by most real scientists that know his work.
Even most Christians wouldn't enjoy reading that book…most Christians are intelligent enough to know that Theistic Evolution is the only way forward for their faith.
"It really should be interesting"?
In order for it to be interesting, it would probably have to do something that no Creationist/Intelligent Design book has done before…actually include some real science, and I really doubt that, seeing as Walt Brown's work has been disregarded as pure fantasy by most real scientists that know his work.
Even most Christians wouldn't enjoy reading that book…most Christians are intelligent enough to know that Theistic Evolution is the only way forward for their faith.
"It really should be interesting"?
In order for it to be interesting, it would probably have to do something that no Creationist/Intelligent Design book has done before…actually include some real science, and I really doubt it will, seeing as Walt Brown's work has been disregarded as pure fantasy by most real scientists that know his work.
Even most Christians wouldn't enjoy reading that book…most Christians are intelligent enough to know that Theistic Evolution is the only way forward for their faith.
I do apologize if that comment was rather off-the-mark, I don't know if your comment was intended to be serious, or sarcastic, and I don't know whether you are a Creationist, or an Evolutionist…
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The funny thing is, when I go to discuss with Christians the existance of several objects in the bible, including both Noah's Ark and The Ark Of The Covenant, they respond by saying: "I think it's pretty obvious these things don't exist". What I want to know is, if they have so little faith in the existance of so many objects that are found in the bible (and this the church-going strong-faith Christians I'm talking about), and thus question the bible's authenticity, then why on earth do they waste so much of their time believing in something that they openly doubt?