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before you buy this book....., September 6, 2007
This review is from: Did Adam Have a Bellybutton: And Other Tough Questions About the Bible (Paperback)
Be aware that it is nothing more than a creationist arguing with the evolutionists. There was very little actual quotations and passages of the bible listed in the answers that he gave, and most of the time he managed to say something negative about today's educated people and those who believe in evolution.
I really tried to read this book with an open mind and ignore the creationist vs. evolutionist thing. I was looking for an interesting viewpoint or some concrete answers with quotations to back them up. I felt duped by this man and felt that he had fallen into the same rigid, closed-off frame of mind that he was accusing the evolutionists of.
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Does Ken Ham Have a Brain: And Other Easy Questions About Creationism, September 19, 2006
This review is from: Did Adam Have a Bellybutton: And Other Tough Questions About the Bible (Paperback)
Let's imagine for a moment that the special creation hallucination peddled by this book is absolutely correct, and that the author's credulous logic is equally impeccable:
Adam and Eve didn't have belly buttons - after all they were created as fully formed thirty-somethings. They weren't nourished in utero via a placenta and umbilical cord. Since Adam was never an embryo or fetus he didn't have nipples either. During development all mammalian embryos follow a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in for male embryos. The embryo then begins to develop its various male characteristics. Consequently men are left with nipples and some breast tissue. God wouldn't mark Adam with any feature that would imply that he had ever been an embryo - hence no nipples.
Note to Ham: Please update the exhibits at your yabba-dabba science homage to "The Flintstones" (aka the Creation Museum) accordingly. And while you're at it loose the silly St. George slays the dragon sculpture. It's right next to the dinosaur with a saddle!
Adam also named all the animals on the sixth day of creation, and he remembered all of their names. How did he accomplish this mnemonic feat? Simple really - Adam had a perfect brain uncorrupted by sin and the curse. He was smarter than Witten, Hawking, Sagan, Feynman, Einstein, Darwin, Newton, or Galileo. Over a lifetime of 930 years a super intellect like this should have realized astonishing philosophic, scientific, and technological advances - but according to Genesis Adam wasted nearly a millennium and left behind a course and brutish Earth where unabated superstition clouded minds, religious gibberish and priestly oppression reigned supreme, slavery flourished, shamans cast out demons, parents stoned sons or daughters, and astronomical phenomena like solar eclipses and changing seasons remained awesome mysteries.
Time to switch back to reality mode - Ham can't even ask the right questions or separate sense from nonsense. Absurdities abound when erroneous presuppositions based on the bipolar conceits of biblical literalism and inerrancy are used to look for scientific or historical answers in Genesis. Mythical symbolism and allegory encode a different worldview. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and Ham utterly fails to persuade.
Books like "Did Adam Have a Belly Button? And Other Tough Questions About the Bible" pop up whenever Ken Ham has access to crayons and paper. Also avoid "Did Eve Really Have an Extra Rib? And Other Tough Questions About the Bible" (reviewed separately). If you like the tough questions genre try
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris.
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Interesting...ok, January 9, 2012
This review is from: Did Adam Have a Bellybutton: And Other Tough Questions About the Bible (Paperback)
The book is interesting for sure. It just doesn't take you too far. But,it's probably worth purchasing as an extra book
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