The Long War Against God: The History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict [Hardcover]

Henry M. Morris (Author)

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• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group (December 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801062578
• ISBN-13: 978-0801062575
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #948,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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85 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taking God's Word Seriously, September 16, 2003

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This review is from: The Long War Against God: The History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict (Paperback)

I find it a sign of spiritual and intellectual imaturity when a young christian goes to the University, reads some books and then comes to Church and tries to debunk the Word of God based solely on human speculation. Well..."been there, done that". However, the more I read human stuff (and I read a lot of it for professional reasons), the more I realise that nothing compares to God's Word. Henry Morris is one of my favorite authors because he takes the Bible seriously. He starts from the Bible and debunks human "wisdom" (lack of it). That's the way to go. If you read what the Bible says about human wisdom, you have not choice but to do what Henry Morris does.

Here are some points about the book that I would like to emphasise:

1) Evolution could not be God's method of creation. It is too cruel, inefficient and irrational. Jesus' nature (the incarnate WORD), life and character are a vivid refutation of evolution.

2) (remember that in 3 days Jesus rose again with a new body. He didn't need 3 billions of years of struggle, suffering and death to evolve one).

3) Evolution is part of different pagan traditions that developed (specially after Babel) in the darkness of sin. These traditions have always been with us. Platonism and Aristotelism are just to examples of how these traditions influenced christian theology (Augustine and Aquinas), because christian theologians thought that the Bible might be missing something. Henry Morris, followint the teachings of Jesus and His apostles (v.g. Peter, Paul) simply states that the Bible is not missing something. If one reads the Bible, one has to conclude that that's exactely what the Bible teaches about itself.

4) The Sermon of the Mount is the proof that God has nothing to do with survival of the fittest. Every time christians engage in deception, violence, murder and genocide (which unfortunately they have done), they are violating the laws of the Creator and showing that "all have sinned: all fall short of God's glorious ideal" Rom 3-23).

5) Contrary to popular belief, science hasn't proved evolution, nor could it, because evolution simply didin't happen. If you think science has proved evolution, think again:

a) the origin of the universe and the origin of life remain a mistery. Even Miller and Urey have confessed that life may be much more complicated than they have thought. How can one affirm evolution as a fact when the first step (the origin of life) of it remains a profound mistery? The prebiotic soup and abiogenesis are nothing but a just-so story.

b)It is still to be found a single mutation that is able to create new DNA information that codes for new functions and structures. Mutations reshuffle, duplicate sort, exchange, remove or maintain pre-existing information. They just don't create new information. Natural selection removes information. Speciation is not evolution. Creationist only deny the latter. They perfectly accept (and predict) natural selection and speciation.

c) There are no transitional forms in the fossil record and in molecular biologicy. Based on evolution's predictions, we should expect trillions. The few that have been put forward are highly controversial, even among evolutionists. Not a single one is consensual among evolutionists themselves.

d) Vestigial organs are not vestigial organs after all. The same is true about "junk-DNA". Both turn out to have a design function. So much for another "proof" of evolution.

e) Evidence of design is overwhelming and growing. Examples of irreducible complexity and complex specified information abound. Fine-tuning is everywhere. Billions of examples.

f) Some so called bad design is simply not bad design, or it may be the result of deterioration. The Panda's thumb is actually excellent design, after all. Steven Jay Gould was just a "nasty little boy".

g) Gradualism didn't happen. Creationists will have to agree with Steven Jay Gould on this one.

h) Saltationism and punctuaded equilibrium are "scientific" nonsense. Creationists will have to agree with Richard Dawkins on this one.

i) Many geologists speak in terms of (Lyell's) uniformitarianism. But the rocks and the fossils themselves are shouting: "Flood!". The Flood remains the best explanation for the existence of numerous flood traditions, the fossil record, the continental drift, the ice age, oil and coal deposits, the catastrophic evidence of rock formation and displacement, etc.

j) "Ontogenesis recapitulate phylogenesis". Just one more example of a failed attempt to prove evolution. Nice try. It has been refuted and Haeckel's embrios denounced as fake. The problem is that for many decades this was used to persuade people that evolution was a scientific fact. Many imature young christians used it to "debunk" God's Word.

k) Creationists are not against science. God's created universe is there to be known and studied. However, the Universe is not just matter, energy, space and time. It is also information. Information is the bridge between God's mind, the universe and human's mind. The more we appreciate it, the more we can see God's glory. Human brains and the Earth itself have been designed by God for scientific discovery.

Creationists just distinguish between operational science and origins naturalistic speculation. But the universe is also about God's moral law. Sin is a kind of virus that also affects the workings of the Universe. That's way God cursed the universe when sin entered the world.

The Universe has large amounts of information, but not all the information we need. There are somethings about God, creation, sin, curse, Flood, Babel, redemption, new creation, etc. that the uníverse is unable to inform us about. That's way we need the Bible.

28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most important work of the twentieth century, February 5, 1999

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This review is from: The Long War Against God: The History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict (Hardcover)

The Long War Against God is arguably the most potent, significant and ground-breaking work, circum-investigating the general theo-social nature of life on earth, particularly in the twentieth century, that I have ever come across. Because of its potency and power, it will no doubt attract negative attention from scoffers and unbelievers. If I were an unbeliever, I would attack this book with all of my might. It totally undermines all secular, humanist-based philosophical ideas and leaves a trail of atheistic destruction.

It is a must-read.

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction, January 6, 2006

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Philip J. Bohlken (Caldwell, Idaho) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Long War Against God: The History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict (Paperback)

If you are a little confused about creation/evolution issues, this book is a good starting point. It covers all of the major issues and does so in a way that is easy to read, convincing, and very helpful. I highly recommend it.