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What Darwin Didn't Know: A Doctor Dissects the Theory of Evolution Paperback – January 1, 2004
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Endorsed by William Dembski, Ph.D., the scientist at the forefront of the intelligent-design movement.
Darwin might have thought twice about publishing his theories if he had had access to today's medical and microbiological discoveries. Drawing on years of research, Dr. Simmons demonstrates that the almost infinite complexity of the human anatomy simply could not have developed by chance. For example:
- the body runs on "battery power"...from the hundreds of mitochondria in each cell
- the two sexes--evolutionary theory cannot explain why they exist
- every cell is its own pharmacist, chemist, and metallurgist
Accessible, clearly presented, and utterly fascinating, What Darwin Didn't Know shows the human body to be a marvelous system constructed by an infinitely wise Designer.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvest House Publishers
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2004
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.67 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100736913130
- ISBN-13978-0736913133
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"Read this book, whatever you might think. You'll finish it a different person than you were when you began it." -- The Statesman Journal, February 15, 2004
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"The relentless detailing of biological elegance and complexity overwhelms facile Darwinism stories as a tidal wave overwhelms a beach." Michael J. Behe, Ph.D.
"There is a tide of data mounting against the Darwinian concept that randomness cannot explain the wonder of life. In What Darwin Didn't Know, Geoffrey Simmons converts the tide into a tidal wave of evidence." Gerald Schroeder, Ph.D.
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- Publisher : Harvest House Publishers; Illustrated edition (January 1, 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0736913130
- ISBN-13 : 978-0736913133
- Item Weight : 13.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.67 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,383,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I am physician who is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Disaster Medicine. I have a B.S. in Zoology and I have completed the course work for a Masters degree in Microbiology. I am also a Fellow with the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture. I have studied the theory of evolution for over forty years. For thirty of those years I was an ardent supporter of Darwinian ideas. I now, however, find the data supporting this theory scientifically untenable. As of this date, my seventh book, What Darwin Didn't Know (2004), is in its eleventh printing (is available print on demand) and my eighth book, Billions of Missing Links (2007), is in its second printing (also print on demand. Both books show how the incredible complexity of the human body and all other living beings cannot have come about through evolution.
My tenth book ARE WE HERE TO RE-CREATE OURSELVES: the convergence of Designs is newly printed(self-pub because I don't have time at my age to send it around and wait)
There may be many reasons why we are here on Earth. Then again, maybe there are none. The reasons that are usually cited include glorifying God, having dominion over all animals, cherishing our parents, raising a family, helping the poor and the unfortunate, tending to the sick and lame, maintaining good health, relieving suffering, and striving to be happy.. One might add: becoming successful in life (whatever that might be). What’s missing, is whether we are also re-creating ourselves for implicit and competitive reasons. We definitely have been trying, in some fashion or another, to copy the human being, dating back to the beginning of recorded time. One merely needs to study the progression from cave drawings to paintings to blueprints to mechanical entities to computer programs to robots and humanoids.
Some authors have penned the idea that re-creating humans is a relatively easy task. After all, aren’t we just a series of simple accidents happening over a very long period of time? We’re special, changing monkeys who came from a long line of ancestors? Some say it was a lightning strike to a puddle of sorts that started it all; yet, lightning burns, disables, destroys and kills. Nonetheless, life started up, steadily improved, changed in uncountable ways and added on new DNA information. Where these new coils of DNA came from or how they changed configurations has never been explained.
The truth is that re-creating a human being would require uncountable millennia, yet-to-be discovered, uncountable chemical processes and an ocean full of superhuman magic. One will have to explain how complexity upon complexity upon complexity happened simultaneously and/or sequentially. How did kindness, empathy, compassion, creativity, prayer and the ability to laugh come about? And, just where did the soul come from? One can take the body apart, much as one strips a car, and never find the seat of the soul. Yet, we have one just as we have two eyes and a nose. Who’s talking to whom when we carry on an internal dialogue?
Our history strongly suggests we are here, at least in part, to re-create human facsimiles, called humanoids. One can readily see a constantly improving, convergence of designs over time. We are now copying many of those designs. This book braids human capabilities (designs) together, such as vision, ambulation, hearing, tasting and consciousness, using the two standout, contemporary explanations of our origins, i.e. Intelligent Design(ID) and the theory of evolution. This book shows that evolution, if it is to be believed, requires a lot of Intelligent Guidance (sometimes called the God of the Gaps). Just the changes needed to go from cold-blooded animals to warm-blooded animals would require several the entire texts of thick chemistry, biology and physics books. Or, from land mammals to sea mammals. Or .walking animals to animals that control flying, landing and nesting in trees.
There are many patterns that have woven their ways throughout our history
Humanoids will need our designs for their own births.
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The above is "reverse reasoning" to most discussions on evolutionary thinking. The discussion normally starts with the evolutionary model, then gets so bogged down in hypothetical reasoning that the simple basic logic is lost or not even thought of to refute. This book lives up to it's concept of looking from a Medical Perspective at what is known by looking at human construction and it's "complex interdependence" especially between "Male and Female" through Reproduction. On this point the book observes : Every significant change in the male's reproductive system had to have been met with a reciprocal change in the female's (or vice versa).
It may be another way of drawing attention to a similar problem; which come first the "Chicken or the egg?" Only in this situation "both Male and Female reproduction changes had to be simultaneously." This is inconsistent with the concept of evolution as it "pinpoints a necessary development" (not in small increments of change) but "simultaneous necessity for life to exist" and cohabited. The Study looks at the KNOWN; to refute the unknown theory based upon what Darwin Did Not Know in relation to modern microbiological discoveries. The examination of "evolutionary theory" thus does not need to be examined, because it fails the first test based on what Darwin Unfortunately Did Not Know Then, but what WE DO KNOW NOW,(the theme of the Title).
The book is written for the non-medical reader in a simply logical easy to understand form to give another way to be freed from the error of Darwinism. It cultivates confidence in a creator (intelligent design) and gives the basis for the author being a Doctor after years of considering the mounting evidence in approaching the question how a Doctor approaches any diagnoses, by looking at the "Know Evidence" in relation to Humans and in doing so Dissecting the Theory of Evolution, concluding it simply does not support what is now known in regards to humans (how complex they are made and the processes involved between the sexes). The book helps to increase belief in Intelligent Design or Creation.
'This denial of God's existence was foretold to occur at Romans 1 verse 20 in these words :
For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world's creation onward ,because they are perceived in the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable."
Are not we a "part of the things made" the medical subject in detail presented within this book of which Dr Michael Behe author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution 'endorses by this comment on rear cover of book sum's it up this way: "A marvelous, entertaining, physician's-eye-view of the intricate functioning of the human body."
Which might aid is inconsistent with evolutionary theory, giving a reasoning basis to Dissent in favor of a Creator, as the scripture says "having made us wonderfully well" of which this book bares to that testimony, freeing us from any misconceptions.
Enjoy! It's logical, easy to understand and written in a pleasant considerate way, really being sympathetic to Darwin Not Knowing What We Know Now.
Dr. Simmons tells the story with humor and clear, precise language. He is the tour guide on this ultimate, incredible journey. At each stop in the human machine, he reveals in detail the complexity of that particular part of the body and how it relates to the whole. The chapter on reproduction is absolutely mind boggling. The chapter on the development of an embryo gives the reader a play by play account of the development of a new human being. All the major systems of the body are explained in language that makes it fun to read this book. Dr. Simmons is a writer who is also a scientist. This is one of the most edifying books I have ever read.
If you home school your children or teach science in a private school, this book is an excellent resource to augment your curriculum.
This book is but one piece of evidence which is specialized to detail the human body and the vast amount of design that we observe. It is one thing to say that the human body is complex - which is something everyone would agree with - but it's another thing to observe that the working systems of the human body appear to be "pre-planned" and designed to work together from the start. However, evolution cannot explain nor predict this.
Aside from the debate itself, the book is also very informative. I learned much about the human body that still makes me drop my jaw in awe. Nothing that man has made can touch this.






