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23 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Any message is symbols and signs of design.,
By Christopher Watts "mynym" (Newark, DE) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Biotic Message: Evolution Versus Message Theory (Hardcover)
Four stars, for some poor editing in the book, but the message is what is important.
The scientific explanation based on Naturalism for any message is that it reduces to its components. I.e., the symbols and signs on your screen right now reduce to pixels, memes and the biochemical state of the brain of the writer at the moment they wrote it. ReMine does a good job laying out the evidence against this sort of Naturalism, from "natural selection" to message theory. Those who believe in Naturalism and scientism will hate the book and find reasons to quibble over technicalities as they typically do and then pretend that technicalities avoid the message. This is quite fitting with their philosophy, in the end. They have avoided the biotic message from the Mind of God, so they can certainly avoid the messages of lesser minds. Those who do not believe in Naturalism or scientism will appreciate the writer's systematic thought and their pursuit of the truth in a systematic fashion. The Naturalist will reply that science is not the pursuit of the truth and can only be the pursuit of naturalistic explanation....because they are getting close to being true or somethin' by now. It ought to be telling to anyone who seeks a rationale for rationality that they make such artificial arguments to avoid the biotic message.
44 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Biotic Message: Evolution Versus Message Theory (Hardcover)
This book deserves every one of it's five stars. This is by far the most comprehensive and best presented introduction to evolutionary theory that I have ever read. Yes, even those who support evolutionary theory would benefit from this volume.This book is also far and away the best critique of evolutionary theory that I have ever read, and I have been reading on the topic for years now. I will not go into specifics, but I will tell you that if you are interested in this subject at all, you need to get this book. Beware! The book is *not* for beginners. This book is by an author who knows what he is talking about and who gets into the details, but it is still well written and easy enough to follow for those with some background in the theory. I'll close by stating that I have experienced many of the tactics which the author exposes in my own discussions with evolutionists. He is right on target, and I can't wait for the next volume by this author. Thank you, Walter James ReMine!
13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very informative book with insights on the unique pattern of life on Earth & the innovative cover strategies of Evolutionists,
This review is from: The Biotic Message: Evolution Versus Message Theory (Hardcover)
Do Evolutionists have strategies to hide the fact that the pattern of life found in the fossil record and in present day species happens to be a problem for their theory? You bet they do, and Walter Remine does a phenomenal job of exposing every last one of their strategies. This part of the book is fascinating, and it uses a well-thought-out system to classify these strategies.
Throughout his book Remine brings forward loads of very compelling evidence-- using what the Evolutionist experts themselves have stated about Darwin's theory to dismantle the idea that common descent is the only legitimate way to view life's pattern on Earth. There is also a technical section in the book on Haldane's dilemma which demonstrates the fact that evolution doesn't build up much of anything helpful genetically. There is a problem with the addition of detrimental mutations in the genome of every living creature on Earth, and this is known as a substitution cost. Even neutral evolution (as opposed to selective evolution) has substitution cost. The explanation of Evolutionists which purports to solve the dilemma invokes a mysterious unobserved phenomenon of "truncation selection" (AKA "synergistic epistasis"). These concepts are nothing but vague ideas that are based on a lot of wishful thinking. Since Remine wrote his book over a decade ago, there has been new information come to light when it comes to Haldane's dilemma. See http://www.evolutionfairytale.com/articles_debates/haldane_rebuttal.htm Much of the book is devoted to ideas of why a designer might set life up in a nested hierarchy pattern, and with sporadic instances of "convergences" in the pattern. The whole pattern is an indication that there was only one designer, not many, who specifically arranged everything to be this way. . . thus the title of the book: "The Biotic Message". The description of the Biotic Message is probably the biggest advent the book brings to the Creation/Evolution controversy. It is a scientific theory which stands on its own, and it's supported by Remine's (and Kurt Wise's) proposed classification system known as Discontinuity Systematics. The book is a prime example of what innovative thinking can do in providing interpretations of life's observed pattern, and there's a huge amount of evidence revealed here which deserves to be studied. This book is definitely a favorite of mine. Don't pass it up.
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