Reviews
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Book Review: Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall
Read more: Book Review: Evolution 2.0 by Perry MarshallEvolution 2.0, by Perry Marshall. Available on Amazon.com Perry Marshall is a well known, successful expert on internet marketing, and his career has included developing new algorithms and paradigms in business and market analysis. For several years, he has been involved in online discussions about intelligent design and evolution. He has now come out with a…
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Review: Progressive Creation becomes aggressive
Read more: Review: Progressive Creation becomes aggressiveMore than Myth? Seeking the Full Truth about Genesis, Creation, and Evolution, P.D. Brown and R. Stackpole, editors (Chartwell Press, 2014). Bruce Gordon, “Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Biblical and Scientific Critique of Young-Earth Creationism,” Science, Religion, and Culture 1, 144 (2014).
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Book Review: Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel
Read more: Book Review: Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas NagelReview of Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel (Oxford University Press, 2012) Thomas Nagel is the bad boy of modern philosophy, because he has gone on record, as a full professor at a major university, saying that the proponents of intelligent design (ID) have not been treated fairly, and many of their arguments are valid.…
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Book Review: To Change the World, by J.D. Hunter
Read more: Book Review: To Change the World, by J.D. HunterReviewed by David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh The title of J.D. Hunter’s book, To Change the World (Oxford University Press, 2010) may strike some people as ironic and dismissive, indicating that he rejects the common evangelical meme of changing the world for good. That is not the case. Hunter believes that changing the world, or more…
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Review of Steve Meyer’s New Book, “Darwin’s Doubt”
Read more: Review of Steve Meyer’s New Book, “Darwin’s Doubt”When I first saw that the new book by Steve Meyer, Darwin’s Doubt, centered on the Cambrian Explosion, I was loathe to read it. I had been led to believe over the years that everything that could be said about the Cambrian Explosion has already been said. I was quite happy to believe that the…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Creator
Read more: Thomas Jefferson’s CreatorJon Meacham’s “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power” (Random House, 2012) is a biography well worth reading. While I would have liked to have read more about Jefferson’s astonishing knowledge and practice of meteorology, archaeology, astronomy, paleontology, architecture, surveying, botany, language and the natural sciences in general, Meacham manages to include intriguing tidbits of Jefferson’s…