APRIL 2009

BOOK REVIEWS


Book Review: “Thank God for Evolution “ by Michael Dowd (Plume, 2009)

Robbert Bakker

Within the body of books written to vilify evolutionists, paint creationists as hopelessly blinded by resolute adherence to outdated theology, and demonstrate that natural science and Christianity can coexist or even support one another, Michael Dowd weighs in with a different perspective that may take readers by surprise.  Dowd not only accepts the evidence for evolutionary processes as persuasive, he also states that the evidence is so overwhelming as to remove any doubt at all about the authenticity of modern evolutionary science. Read more.




Book Review: “The Physics of Christianity” by Frank J. Tipler (Doubleday, 2008)

Rick Guetter

You may have heard about the efforts of Google and NASA in starting "Singularity University" - a place where the world’s best minds meet to study, as Chancellor Ray Kurzweil states on the organization’s website: “ … the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a broad variety of fields, including health, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. It is only these accelerating technologies that have the scale to address the major challenges of humanity …. ” Read more.




Book Review: “Hidden Light: Science Secrets of the Bible” by David Medved (Maggid Books, 2008)

Marjorie Sutherland

There is a modern/post modern academic assumption that antiquated texts are necessarily inaccurate, and this is especially true regarding scientific knowledge.  How could early alchemists, healers and astronomers know what we know today given their limited understanding of the laws of physics and chemistry, and ridiculous lack of technological tools for the purpose discovery? This assumption has also been applied to Holy Scripture. Read more.




Book Review: “The Language of God” by Francis S. Collins (Free Press, 2006)

Marjorie Sutherland

“On a warm summer day just six months into the new millennium, humankind crossed a bridge into a momentous new era”. So begins the book by Francis Collins, leading geneticist and appointed head of the publicly funded Human Genome Project. As coordinator of this ten-year project, Collins oversaw work in 20 genome centers in six different countries worldwide. Read more.