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It Couldn't Just Happen

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The book was great. I have read it many times and am amazed at the wealth of real, hard and fast scientific facts. I recommend it to anyone who needs to defend creation and refute evolution with science.

In order for a book to be trustworthy, it has to be based on solid facts. However, this book starts off with blatant errors in even the most basic science and then goes downhill from there. At some point, your children will become educated enough to see those errors. And then what will happen? Will they start to question the conclusion that God and His Son do indeed exist? Find a better book. :)

Some errors in this book:

Page 8 - There are exactly 1029 visible stars.
answer - With good eyesight, as many as 6000 stars are visible.

Page 8 - Galileo's 1609 work was done "about 300 years ago."
answer - This book was copyrighted nearly 400 years after 1609.

Page 8 - Galileo invented the telescope in 1609.
answer - Hans Lippershey invented the telescope in 1608.

Page 8 - Galileo saw exactly 3,310 stars.
answer - Galileo saw many more than 6,000 stars.

Page 9 - Alpha Centauri is the nearest star.
answer - Proxima Centauri is the nearest star.

Page 14 - The "bouncing universe" theory was not even a theory.
answer - It was a theory, even though it was proven false.

Page 15 - Pulsars send out bursts of energy.
answer - Pulsars send out steady streams of energy.

Page 17 - The planetary orbits are circles.
answer - The planetary orbits are ellipses.

Page 22 - The law of entropy tells us the planets are dead.
answer - Only by sending probes can we know what is happening.

Page 27 - The Earth isn't going to lose her moon.
answer - The Moon is moving 4 cm farther away each year.

Page 28 - Tjeered van Andel is an oceanographer.
answer - His first name is spelled "Tjeerd."

Page 31 - Two parts oxygen with one part hydrogen yields water.
answer - One part oxygen with two parts hydrogen yield water.

Do I really need to continue?

Richard's book very aptly presents the absurdity that the many wonders of creation just happened by chance. His presentation of material shows great research and sound logic. To the one who stated his mathematical calculations of flipping 10 coins. He was calculating the probability that all ten coins would come up heads. His calculation was mathematically correct. If you do your homework, you will see that his facts are correct.

I skimmed the book, and was appalled. Logic was absent. As an example, in trying to demonstrate how unlikely evolution was, the author used the example of flipping a set of 10 coins, to calculate the probability that they would all come up heads. His answer was one in 10x9x8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1 = one in about 4 million. The real answer (pardon my arrogance) is 0.5^10 or about one in 1000. No wonder he thinks we didn't evolve. Read it, and marvel at the things people will believe.