The subject of origins has always been a controversial issue. How and when did life begin? Was it a result of random chance processes over millions of years of time or was life designed by a Creator. The controversy surrounding the origin and history of life has triggered heated debate between supporters of the two opposing views… Creation and Evolution. Evolutionists claim their beliefs are scientific and accurate, proclaiming their theory as an indisputable fact. Creationists maintain their perspective is logical and can be supported by the observable evidence. Is it really possible to know which of these two models is correct? Is there a test which can be made to examine the credibility of a theory? The Evidence for Creation examines the fundamental principles of the evolution and creation models and tests them against the observable evidence.
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Roger Oakland is an author and lecturer who speaks internationally on a variety of topics relating to the Bible and science, the defense of the Christian faith, and the deception the Bible predicts will characterize the last days.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't believe an atheist.,
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This review is from: The Evidence for Creation: Examining the Origin of Planet Earth (Paperback)
This is an excellent book! As far as evidence, it is all around us, you are part of it. It does take a fool to believe that the Earth and all it's life forms came in to being from "billions and billions" of years of fortuitous occurrences of accidental circumstances. ALL life forms show evidence of intelligent design. Therefore there must be a Designer. "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork."- Psalm 19:1 "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"- Psalm 14:1; 53:1. There IS billions upon billions of coded information (DNA) in a single cell of your body to fill thousands of volumes of books the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The blueprint for your whole body, every single part of it, is encoded in each cell of your body. If you diligently and earnestly seek the Truth, you will find it. Read the book and examine the evidence.
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Spectacularly self-defeating,
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This review is from: The Evidence for Creation: Examining the Origin of Planet Earth (Paperback)
My aim here is not to debunk creationism but rather to discredit this particular book, which consists chiefly of misinformation, unsupported assertions, and exceedingly poor arguments. The authors also unwittingly demolish their own position, ironically making the entire book a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. If you are interested in creationism, this would be an awful place to start. While I cannot in good conscience recommend a single book on the topic, I will simply point out that this one is exceedingly poor.While my criticism is harsh, I feel it is completely warranted, particularly in view of the author's vindictiveness toward those who disagree with them. For example, they assert: "A person who accepts the evolution premise as valid can not be convinced through intellectual reasoning that he is wrong." And, "To any honest open-minded observer, the vast fossil evidence from all over the world confirms the Bible record of creation." [p. 75] Evidently the authors believe that anyone who finds the preponderance of the evidence to support evolution is, by that criterion alone, both dishonest and closed-minded. Such ad hominem attacks are not only uncalled for, they are fallacious. Arguments with genuine substance needn't employ such tactics. There are far too many egregious errors in this book to list in a short review, so I will merely select a few random quotes: "The majority of the methods for determining the age of the earth indicate the earth is young. Only a few questionable methods of geochronology support the evolutionary concept of billions of years of age." As harsh as it may sound, this is a great example of the fallacy known as "invincible ignorance"; the authors simply refuse to acknowledge the colossal mountain of evidence against them. It hardly warrants further comment. Here is another: "[Water] is one of the few compounds which does not follow the natural laws of chemistry. Instead of contracting when it is frozen, water expands to create ice." To say that water "does not follow the natural laws of chemistry" is precisely like saying that helium balloons do not obey the law of gravitation. The somewhat unusual (but not unique) property of expanding when frozen is an immediate consequence of its crystalline structure, which follows from its bond angles, which follows from quantum mechanics; Laws of chemistry, all the way down. But the authors make the most spectacular blunder I have ever seen in print. Here is what they have to say about a world-wide deluge (Noah's flood): "All manner of life would be mixed and scrambled together and quickly buried." [p. 82] "Vegetation and animal life would be scrambled together, torn, and buried in the layers of the earth in no particular order." [p. 83] "According to the biblical model of the flood, all kinds of life would have been caught and destroyed in the layers of the earth. Fossils should not be found in a sequential order of simple to complex." [p.86] The authors spell out what Biblical creationism predicts and correctly observe that it is dramatically different from what evolution predicts. After setting up this most appropriate test, which unequivocally distinguishes between two rival hypotheses, the authors simply abandon the entire argument and move on to a new topic, never once taking a close look at what we actually find in the geological record. While the authors do inject some odd statements later on (p. 165) about fossils everywhere appearing to have been formed by a sudden catastrophe, these are unsupported, wildly misleading, and evasive. The most relevant question is how (or whether) the fossils are ordered in the geological record. Here is what we find: The fossils of the geological column are ordered according to phylogeny (relatedness) and not homology (similarity of form), revealing world-wide strata corresponding to epochs of immense duration, unerringly separating both flora and fauna into hundreds of distinct groups, and showing an unmistakable progression from simple organisms in the Precambrian era to complex multicellular organisms in the Cambrian era and beyond. Creatures are layered according to the most minute anatomical differences, such as the number of bones in the ear, the number of toes, or the number of lenses in a compound eye. Flowering plants (angiosperms) diversified in the mid-Cretaceous, as did insects, so the types of plants and insects that we find are quite different on either side of the Cretaceous strata. Not a single reptile or mammal has ever been found among the countless fossils of the Cambrian strata. Primates are found first in the Cretaceous era, never in strata below. On and on it goes. Few things in science are as spectacularly clear or well-documented as that. The words "slam dunk" come to mind. Infer what you will about why the authors failed to mention any of that. Also, please consider again what the authors had to say about honest observers. Enough said.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good overview of creation and the young Earth argument.,
This review is from: The Evidence for Creation: Examining the Origin of Planet Earth (Paperback)
This is generally a good, solid book on creationism and the evidence for a young Earth. Probably more suited for the beginning, rather than the advanced, Creationist. However, it would be a good additional to any young Earth Creationists bookshelf.
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