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Undeniable Paperback – September 8, 2015
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Bill Nye
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Print length350 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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Publication dateSeptember 8, 2015
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Dimensions5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
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ISBN-101250074223
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ISBN-13978-1250074225
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“With his charming, breezy, narrative style, Bill empowers the reader to see the natural world as it is, not as some would wish it to be. He does it right. And, as I expected, he does it best.” ―Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D, host of COSMOS
“This gracefully written book provides a tour through not just the big ideas of evolution, but why evolution is such a captivating idea scientifically, philosophically, and emotionally. Written from the heart--but science always comes from the heart with Bill Nye.” ―Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D., author of Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
“Bill Nye has written a wonderfully clear, readable, and enjoyable explanation of what evolution is and is not. In his casual, humorous style, he...describes the gigantic mountain of evidence that demonstrates that evolution not only happened in the past, but is happening in real time.” ―Donald Prothero, Ph.D., author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
“Following right in his mentor Carl Sagan's footsteps, this call to action and awareness of the lingering ‘debate' over the reality of Evolution will further cement Bill Nye's place as our time's premier spokesman for science and reason.” ―Dr. Jim Bell, president of The Planetary Society and author of The Interstellar Age
“Bill Nye has penned one of the clearest and most moving explanations of that process since Darwin's On the Origin of Species. With clarity and passion, Nye brings evolutionary theory to life.” ―Michael Shermer, Ph.D., author of Why Darwin Matters and The Moral Arc
About the Author
Bill Nye is a scientist, engineer, comedian, and inventor. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University where he studied under Carl Sagan, and worked on the 747 as an engineer at Boeing before creating and hosting his much-loved Emmy award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy. He holds six Honorary Doctorate degrees from Lehigh University, Willamette University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Goucher College, and Johns Hopkins, and teaches at Cornell regularly as a visiting professor.
Corey S. Powell is the former editor in chief of American Scientist and Discover, where he is currently editor at large and continues to write the "Out There" column and blog. He is also a visiting scholar at NYU's SHERP science journalism program, as well as a freelance writer for Popular Science, Smithsonian, Nautilus, and Aeon; his article "The Madness of the Planets" appears in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and a small collection of Permian-era fossils. Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation is his first collaboration with Bill Nye, but he hopes it will not be his last.
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Product details
- Publisher : Griffin; Reprint edition (September 8, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 350 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250074223
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250074225
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
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Nye does not discuss the major issues with evolution: how DNA and RNA arose, how proteins could form outside a cell, how the first cell membrane could form, how multicellular organisms developed, how DNA and genes increased to create new cell types and more complex organisms, how new gene regulatory networks that control the cell differentiation process were created, and how all this new information coding was derived from inanimate chemicals. Most of all, he does not discuss the general necessity for multiple successive mutations in order to effect a significant genetic change and the virtual mathematical impossibility of this successfully happening. In short, contrary to its title, his book teaches us very little about any science associated with evolution.
Where Nye definitely goes wrong in my opinion is when he states that children who believe in the biblical creation story "will have to suppress the basic human curiosity that leads to asking questions, exploring the world around them, and making discoveries." (p. 10) Yet the person Bill Nye said he would most like to meet is Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) who developed the sciences of electricity and magnetism and invented the electric generator. He was the foremost physicist of his day and also a committed Bible believing Christian who believed science and the Bible were not in conflict.
Nye forgets that the scientific revolution was propelled primarily by biblical believers who sought to understand the mind of their Creator by exploring His creation, people like Galileo, Kepler (planetary motion), Newton (calculus and gravity), Francis Bacon (scientific method), Blaise Pascal (probability), Robert Boyle (gas dynamics), Carolus Linnaeus (biological taxonomy), George Cuvier (paleontology), Samuel Morse (telegraph), James Joule (thermodynamics), Louis Agassiz (glaciology), Gregory Mendel (genetics), Louis Pasteur (bacteriology and disease prevention), Lord Kelvin (thermodynamics), Joseph Lister (antiseptic surgery), Joseph Clerk Maxwell (electromagnetic field theory), Bernhard Riemann (non-Euclidean geometry), Edward Hitchcock (geologist), John Ambrose Fleming (electronics), George Washington Carver (agriculture), and Werner von Braun (rocketry). The science Nye so esteems was developed by Christians such as these "asking questions, exploring the world around them, and making discoveries."
If you are not comfortable with a book like this, then choose something else. Maybe a coloring book.
By Louis Wislocki on August 14, 2018
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