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Best of Amazon: Creationist on Dawkins Book

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Our latest best of Amazon Review comes from Edward Hurst, who claims that Richard Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution is wrong on a number of grounds.

This is a detailed and meticulous description of evolution and the history of biological life. Of its type, this is one of the most comprehensive and readable accounts available. Unfortunately Dawkins is operating entirely within the wrong paradigm!

Creation may be contradicted by facts, but facts don’t necessarily add up to truth. Evolution itself is flawed on several counts, for example it cannot explain:

1) Why heavy fish, like whales, don’t just sink to the bottom of the ocean
2) Why most trees are so much taller than necessary
3) How non-biological animals, like crocodiles and ostriches, came into existence
4) Why sharks haven’t grown legs, moved onto land and taken over the world
5) The existence of invisible species that remain undiscovered

So go ahead and read Dawkins’ lucid prose in ‘The Ancestor’s Tale’ – but remember there are some occasions when facts are wrong.

Clearly Dawkins’ doesn’t deal with invisible species, so he must be wrong ;-)



Comments

7 Responses to “Best of Amazon: Creationist on Dawkins Book”

  2. Terry Rigby

    Whoever wrote that comment does not know any biology.
    Whales are not fish, for a starter.
    What height is necessary for a tree?
    In which way are crocodiles and ostriches non-biological?
    Sharks are in a niche they have occupied successfully for many millions of years, The commentator know nothing about evolution.
    “The existence of invisible species that remain undiscovered”: this is gibberish

  3. jedrek

    My favorite part is, 'why heavy fish don't sink'.

    Probably for the same reason heavy ships don't.

  4. John Sutton

    Whales don't sink because their brains are upside down. Hence they cleverly sink upwards.
    Only the male trees are taller than necessary to attract the females at night when biologists are asleep.
    Crocodiles and Ostriches do not have DNA so they had to be cloned from rancid marmite and earwax.
    Sharks that have grown legs and live on land are called city-financiers.
    Bats can detect invisible species which is why they have to dodge about so much.