Review:It is really a matter of expectation for me. The BBC series "Walking With Dinosaurs" was really fascinating to me many years ago. This book purports to bring us up to date on the massive amount of recent research. It starts out slow and very egocentric, written more to glorify the recent generation of scientists. I'm sorry, but the eccentric habits of hippie-nerd paleontologists as they go about their work just aren't that interesting. What I wanted was to learn in some depth how the field ... Read more

Review:"Why Evolution Is True" is a well written, informative, very convincing defense of the truth and accuracy of evolution. The author, Jerry Coyne, does an excellent job of presenting a complex subject in a readable and understandable fashion. The book is filled with innumerable examples, which clarify and support the positions the author has taken.

The book is also quite persuasive of the author's position. Unlike many of the readers, who appear quite educated in this subject, I come to ... Read more

Review:This book is not really about the evolution vs creationism issue. That issue is settled in science and only lives on in the minds of the willfully ignorant, some of whom choose to launch an "internet crusade" against Dr Dawkins.

Rather, this book is an odessey of evolution, from ourselves through our ancestors back in time. It is a worthy tale, if a bit detailed at times. Our path has been very contingent and very fascinating. But for all the detail, the point is one of raw awe.

If... Read more

Review:'its just a theory' -- blah blah. Yea. Well, read this, reflect on it--THEN let us discuss it. Amazingly, most creationists have never really read up on evolution to discover how the mechanics of it really work. As Richard Dawkins shows us, it isn't just "random chance".

If you fear this book, get it and read it anyway so you at least know what you are railing against. Read more

Review:This is the third book about Darwin and the evolution of the ideas about life's origins that I've read in the last year, and it's a really good complement to other books. It's precise, concise, and relatively easy to follow, given the complexity of the topics that are addressed. The work done by the scientists described in the book is amazing, and the conditions under which they do it are remarkable -- basically camping on an inhospitable island (inhospitable for humans) for months at a time.Read more

Review:This very thorough scientific analysis of all the evidence related to the Cambrian explosion put one more nail in the coffin of Darwin's theory of macroevolution as a creative process. What every child intuitively understands that creation requires a creator is willingly ignored by those claiming to be scientists. The question is what is their motivation for defending this lie for so long and with such vehemence. I hope that some who have been fooled will read this book and think again about wha... Read more

Review:I was very disappointed in A Beautiful Mind and couldn't finish it. There seemed to be too much math "talk" that I couldn't get past to get to the actual person and story. Maybe another day, I'll try to go back and finish it. I tried! :( Read more