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The Origin of Species Revisited: The Theories of Evolution and of Abrupt Appearance [Volume 1]

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Wendell Bird is an attorney who concentrates primarily in litigation and in tax laws affecting exempt organizations. In the early 1980s, he served as a staff attorney for the Institute for Creation Research for two years and served as a special assistant attorney general for Louisiana in a case for six years, and represented the creationist side in important court cases such as Edwards v. Aguillard. He also wrote The Origin of Species Revisited, Volume 2.

He wrote in the Introduction to this 1991 book, "First, this volume outlines affirmative lines of scientific evidence supporting the theory of abrupt appearance that are parallel to the affirmative lines of evidence or arguments supporting evolution, and assesses whether evolution is so firmly proved that alternative explanations cannot exist. Second, Volume II addresses the definition of science in the context of the evolution controversy, and assesses whether the features of natural law, testability, and falsifiability are necessary demarcation lines between science and nonscience... this book describes the constitutional concepts of academic freedom and separation of church and state in relation to public school instruction in all scientific theories of origins, including nonevolutionary theories, and thereby provides a defense of uncensored instruction."

W.R. Bird reviews the evolutionist literature (journals, etc.) to expose the unpublicized confusion in almost every field related to evolutionary studies. As a noted biologist said, every scientist assumes Darwinism to be right, because that's what they've been taught, yet each in his specialty constantly finds evidence that something's very wrong with the theory. To witness this chaos in print is entertaining indeed, though tragic.

A wide-ranging evaluation which includes abiogenesis, neo-Darwinism and its competitors, and cosmology. Required reading for any true lover of science.