Goodbye Darwin [Hardcover]

Cherif El Ayouty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 8, 1998

The first book in the history of mankind to challenge on scientific, philosophical and plane common sense grounds, at the same time and inside the same book, both the scientific theories as well as the religious teachings about the origin of life and human beings. The only book not backed or proded by any scientific or religious interest group

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Finally a true independent and honest view of science's and religion's theories about Darwinism, evolution and the origin of life. -- Dr. Collin Patterson, Chief Paleontologist, Brtish Museum of Natural History.

About the Author

One of the most travelled persons on earth with an Engineering M.Sc. degree and 25 years of studying anthropology, animal life, space and religions. The author wrote his own biography in a book which became a best seller in Denmark (his country) and is now the base for a national television series.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 351 pages
• Publisher: Minerva Press (August 8, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075410172X
• ISBN-13: 978-0754101727
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,154,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Badly Written, Badly Researched, March 10, 2004

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This review is from: Goodbye Darwin (Hardcover)

This book is shocking. Its potential to be a well thought out, well presented challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection was let down by a remarkable lack of knowledge and understanding of the subject and a laughable approach to attempted scientific writing. El Ayouty justifies his lack of scientific language by claiming this makes it more accessible to the layperson, but instead it becomes a book for the brainless, with no references to papers or particular work by any scientists, and therefore no justification with evidence for any suggestions he puts forward. His experience of good scientific technique is clearly minimal, as there is no science in the book whatsoever. Whatever can claim to be taught biology is quoted incorrectly or simply wrong, with no foundation or research-based backing. The list of mistakes made about biology and evolution is too long to touch on here, I'm sure the author has received much in the way of corrective material already! My advice to anyone who reads this book is to read another one, or to take a course in macro-biology. Some biochemistry wouldn't hurt as well! Poor Cherif El Ayouty! He has tried to write a book on a subject which he has come across (not specialised in), seen it to be a bit doubtful, decided to be different and question this subject. Unfortunately, though questioning things is always good, deciding by yourself that, just to be different, you will come up with an alternative theory and discard any previous attempts is not always the best idea, especially when your alternative involves an alien culture. Need I say more? El Ayouty claims without question that evolution by means of natural selection has as much evidence for it as invasion of Earth by alien cultures. I refer El Ayouty to the numerous occurrences of natural selection in the field, the laboratory, the home, the hospital etc, where evolution is continuous and observable. Once again, poor Cherif! I lament the ignorance shown within this book! Take nothing in "Goodbye Darwin", dear unfortunate reader, as truth. Unless the person in question already has knowledge of the subject, no-one should ever be exposed to this cascade of misunderstanding and untruthfulness, for fear of brainwashing. To make matters even worse, El Ayouty makes several comments which verge on racism. Whether this is mere paranoia on my part is up for debate, but references to 'blacks, whites, browns, reds and yellows', the differences in childbirth between African and European women, and the suggestion that we are all almost different species, are hard to fathom, and certainly conflict with El Ayouty's description of himself as open-minded when it comes to that sort of thing.
To write more would be either to continue writing on El Ayouty's writing, or to start correcting some of his mistakes, both of which are unnecessary in this review, so I'll round of with another final warning to a prospective buyer: if you are to buy this book, bear in mind that it is representative of all that is NOT science or biology, it does not give what it claims to, and it is not an alternative to Darwin.