Creation vs. Evolution: What Do the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal? (Examine the Evidence®) [Paperback]

Ralph O. Muncaster (Author)

Book Description

Series: Examine the Evidence® | Publication Date: March 1, 2000

Over 100 years ago, Darwin hoped fossils would someday provide transitional evidence. Now, millions of fossils later, the data actually suggests creation, not evolution. Join Muncaster in this fascinating look at the scholarship that proposed evolution and how belief in pure evolution theory is declining as scientific conclusions increasingly support creationism.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736903518
• ISBN-13: 978-0736903516
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,539,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Very Basic View of the Issue, April 1, 2003

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m beno (montgomery, al United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creation vs. Evolution: What Do the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal? (Examine the Evidence®) (Paperback)

There isn't much to this "book" (more like a pamphlet). Its 48 pages covers the general arguments without going into much detail. I would say if you know nothing about the issue, its a good book to start with

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected at all, June 15, 2004

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Erik Reynolds (Hermitage, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creation vs. Evolution: What Do the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal? (Examine the Evidence®) (Paperback)

Most of the content in this book is good in it's motive to try to convince the reader that creation will win the battle against evolution but the content itself is not so good. Mostly because it could have been written in an easier to understand way and there could have been more content about the evidence of the earth being young. The overwhelming evidence is not there mostly because the author endorses old-earth creationism, which is completely unbiblical. I would wholeheartedly recommend other great books on creation vs. evolution other than this one such as Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation by Dennis R. Peterson, Refuting Evolution by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, Scientific Creationism by Henry M. Morris, or In the Beginning by Walt Brown

22 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, May 9, 2001

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"dwdamon" (Garden City, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creation vs. Evolution: What Do the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal? (Examine the Evidence®) (Paperback)

This book demonstrates an amazing lack of understanding of the theory of evolution.

For a book that has 'examine the evidence' in the title, the fact that there is no examination of evidence in it at all is puzzling. Since it's under 50 (small) pages, on the otherhand, this is not suprising.

It contains very few references (16 are listed in the back), and for good reason... If you research his references you find that Muncaster is being (seemingly purposefully) misleading. For instance he mentions a statistical analysis by the molecular biologist, Harold Morowitz, that the random events required to create a single living cell are astronomical. Muncaster uses that as 'proof' that evolution couldn't have happened. He fails to mention that Morowitz is, in fact, an evolutionist. The statistic he calculated was in support the protocell theory of evolution, suggesting that life biogenesis was not a ridiculously unlikely collision of molecules into a fully assembled modern cell. Rather that it was a logical, step by step process of natural selection.

Almost the entire argumental thrust of this (overpriced) pamplet revolves around the statistical implausability of complex structures appearing by mere chance. Since the theory of evolution is not at all about complex structures appearing by pure chance, but about adaptions being selected by natural forces (the antithesis of chance), every argument that Muncaster makes against evolution is rendered pointless.

He makes many bold statements such as: "... most microbiologists, physicists, and experts in applied mathematics and statistics (who know about the findings) now reject evolution." But he gives nothing to support statements like this. No references, or quotes. Nothing. The microbiologists and physicists that he mentions, are evolutionists, by the way.

If you are interested in what the general gist of what the creationist arguments are, then this glosses over them pretty well without going into any substance (rather typical of all of the creationist information i've found so far). The same information and arguments are easily found scattered around the internet, pretty much verbatim, but this will give you a good place to know what to look for.

If you have opted to believe in creationism, and are looking for a good book to make you feel really clever for not believing in that 'idiotic theory of evolution'. Then this is would be a great book for you. However, you really ought to read *something* (i'd recommend Futuyna's 'Science on Trial') that at least gives some hint as to what the theory of evolution is all about. Don't expect to find that out from Muncaster, he apparently doesn't have a clue about it.