Darwin's Leap of Faith: Exposing the False Religion of Evolution [Paperback]

John Ankerberg (Author), John Weldon (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1565076575 | ISBN-13: 978-1565076570 | Publication Date: February 15, 1998

Ankerberg and Weldon present the major arguments against evolution, including fossil and scientific support, provide the facts on the day–age theory, the gap theory, and progressive creationism, and examine the evidence for creationism.

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• Paperback: 396 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (February 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565076575
• ISBN-13: 978-1565076570
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #894,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good intent, but poor scholarship, July 22, 1999

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This review is from: Darwin's Leap of Faith: Exposing the False Religion of Evolution (Paperback)

This book is not academic but quite popular, this may be why it consists for a great part of cutting and pasting citations. This is acceptable in the first part of the book, where they show much evidence for persecution in the American society of those who do not believe in "evolution". They succeed here also in showing the tenets and cultural impacts of the religion of evolution, (although I would rather recommend Johnson's Reason in the Balance.) The trouble begins with the part on the empirical evidence for evolution, which is not impressive (I would rather recommend Denton's Evolution, or Johnson's Darwin.) And the authors miss the major argument (failing to show the incompatibility of evolution with some of the most basic truths such as consciousness, morality, free will, beauty, rationality, as O'Hear does in his Beyond Evolution.) And the parts on the Big Bang or on geology ("flood geology") are catastrophic. I doubt the authors understand much about this issues. I would rather recommend other books (in the direction of Intelligent Design), but this present book may satisfy Young Earth Creationists.

I value much the apologetic efforts and courage of the authors, as their site and TV show, but I hope they will become more critical of Young Earth Creationism, it does more evil to Christianity by discreting it, in my opinion.

13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Looked rushed, August 4, 2000

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This review is from: Darwin's Leap of Faith: Exposing the False Religion of Evolution (Paperback)

I normally don't read books (or watch movies, for that matter) that have litle promise. When I went to the Christian bookstore to look at the available material on the subject of Creationism (vs. Evolutionism), I encountered a variety of possibilities, including those books writen by Behe and Johnson. However, I determined that they were too involved for my non-scientific mind to comprehend.

Then, when I saw Leap of Faith, I thought this would be more my style, as it is more apologetic and less scientific. However, I must say that I was disappointed in Leap of Faith. I kept waiting for it to deliver what I thought it would, but the authors really seemed to concentrate on showing the bias Evolutionists have toward Creationists. The vast majority of what I read was not very new. The clip and paste technique of the many quotes became very tedious, and I found myself doing more skimming than close reading.

In addition, I found several grammar/structure errors that made this book appear rushed. The note preceding the "Notes" on page 351 said there was a temporary loss of the author's library, making some citations incomplete. This concerned me. Would it not have been better to have taken the time to find these lost items or else dump the quotes/information in question? I thought so. Maybe these are little things, but I wondered how closely the authors/editors fine-tuned this book. (It's amazing to me, though, to read on the back cover how Mr. Weldon has authored/coauthored more than 75 books! Perhaps this explains the lack of detail.)

The authors also gave little room for disagreement. While I hold to a young earth and no possibility of Theistic Evolution as they do, I wish they would have been a little more fair in explaining the other views on creation. While I don't minimize the importance of the necessity of believing that God is the Creator of the world (and Evolution could therefore not be true, since it is based on naturalism and secular humanism and is therefore atheistic in nature), I sometimes wonder if we Christians too often major on the minor points (i.e. expending endless energy defending a literal 7-day creation vs. the possibility of an older earth). I'm sure the authors would disagree with me on this.

I guess if I really want to tackle the issue, I should consider taking some time and reading "Darwin's Black Box" (on my bookshelf--it looks good, but it scares me!) or other fine works on the subject.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A poorly reasoned diatribe., July 29, 1998

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This review is from: Darwin's Leap of Faith: Exposing the False Religion of Evolution (Paperback)

I came looking for evidence to support Creationism and left empty handed. The authors continuously miss quote others in their poorly reasoned diatribe. Most of the quotes are from secondary sources and while there are notes referencing the sources there is no bibliography. The book is void of evidence, even in the sectionstitled "Creation Evidence" It is apparent that the authors have not read Darwin of if they did read him they did not understand what they read. They assign him intentions which he explicitly denies in his writings. All in all, the book is a great disappointment, lacking in evidence and filled with poorly reasoned attacks on evolution. I would suggest you save your money, even a good creationist will be disappointed by this book.