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The Illustrated Origins Answer Book: Concise, Easy-To-Understand Facts About the True Origin of Life, Man, and the Cosmos
An impressive information resource in one small, handy package. What makes this book so unique? It's like two outstanding books in one -- an eye-opening, fast-reading main text, and a superb reference book, exceptionally handy and up-to-date.
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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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December 21, 2007
This book was amazing. Forty-seven pages of straight-forward answers, all neatly documented, and sixty-two pages of fine print to follow. Three hundred and fifteen sources!
I have always been a Creationist, and the debate has been an enjoyment of mine since early high school, but never have I come across a source so straight-forward and readily organized. This publication offered me documented findings which I would never have thought to seek out for myself. It's all there, in the back of the book. If I want, I can go and search out all the publications on which this argument is based, all the research journals and books; and more often than not, the author's education and credentials are listed right along with them.
This book covered everything from the Big Bang (red shift and the distribution of material throughout the universe) to the fossil record. There was quite a bit of surprising and sound research concerning the earth's magnetic field and the rate by which our sun is shrinking that points to a young earth. I was also unaware previous to reading this book, that C-14 dating cannot be used on non-living things or petrified remains, but that potassium-argon and uranium-lead were other methods used; I was also unaware that they assumed so much about the environment and conditions surrounding the fossilization and the time it spent sitting, and that things as simple as being located on a sunny rock versus in the cool shade of an outcropping could throw the dates off by millions of estimated years! That alone to me casts reasonable enough doubt on any of the radioactive dating methods. And here students fresh out of college have been citing it as a viable method in arguments consistently! What are they teaching them in those institutions?
Most who practice true science need only the Second Law of Thermodynamics or the observations concerning the DNA structures and codes to convince them of Intelligent Design. But I've never felt so confident in this before. There were things here which I never would have anticipated. By the time I was finished with this book, I was convinced that not only was Evolution an improbability but an impossibility, and that further advances in true science (according to the scientific method and not based on vague theory) will continue to be easily reconcilable with Creationism.
This is a must for anyone who is interested in the topic of Creationism, for anyone struggling with origins theory, and for anyone looking for apologetics material. Frank, concise and to the point, and there are plenty of extra notes in the back for those who enjoy research and who plan to look further into any of the topics mentioned here. It's everything the Evolutionary community doesn't want the textbook companies to know; about their theories, about their own doubts concerning them; there are even several quotes and passages by Evolutionists turned Creationists and Evolutionists who have lost faith in their theory. It's as if I had the reader's companion to the debate sitting right here on my desk. So easy to read, most anyone can understand it.
I have always been a Creationist, and the debate has been an enjoyment of mine since early high school, but never have I come across a source so straight-forward and readily organized. This publication offered me documented findings which I would never have thought to seek out for myself. It's all there, in the back of the book. If I want, I can go and search out all the publications on which this argument is based, all the research journals and books; and more often than not, the author's education and credentials are listed right along with them.
This book covered everything from the Big Bang (red shift and the distribution of material throughout the universe) to the fossil record. There was quite a bit of surprising and sound research concerning the earth's magnetic field and the rate by which our sun is shrinking that points to a young earth. I was also unaware previous to reading this book, that C-14 dating cannot be used on non-living things or petrified remains, but that potassium-argon and uranium-lead were other methods used; I was also unaware that they assumed so much about the environment and conditions surrounding the fossilization and the time it spent sitting, and that things as simple as being located on a sunny rock versus in the cool shade of an outcropping could throw the dates off by millions of estimated years! That alone to me casts reasonable enough doubt on any of the radioactive dating methods. And here students fresh out of college have been citing it as a viable method in arguments consistently! What are they teaching them in those institutions?
Most who practice true science need only the Second Law of Thermodynamics or the observations concerning the DNA structures and codes to convince them of Intelligent Design. But I've never felt so confident in this before. There were things here which I never would have anticipated. By the time I was finished with this book, I was convinced that not only was Evolution an improbability but an impossibility, and that further advances in true science (according to the scientific method and not based on vague theory) will continue to be easily reconcilable with Creationism.
This is a must for anyone who is interested in the topic of Creationism, for anyone struggling with origins theory, and for anyone looking for apologetics material. Frank, concise and to the point, and there are plenty of extra notes in the back for those who enjoy research and who plan to look further into any of the topics mentioned here. It's everything the Evolutionary community doesn't want the textbook companies to know; about their theories, about their own doubts concerning them; there are even several quotes and passages by Evolutionists turned Creationists and Evolutionists who have lost faith in their theory. It's as if I had the reader's companion to the debate sitting right here on my desk. So easy to read, most anyone can understand it.
April 6, 2025
PROS
+ Although obviously not being comprehensive and not up to date, this book(let) is a very good summary of some key findings, and sufficient in itself to debunk the theory of evolution. What I learned through many lengthy books I had to bear in the past, is beautifully packaged here.
NEUTRAL
o No errors noted (from the viewpoint of my limited technical knowledge). But I generally distrust probability calculations found in every book related to this topic. Those are a nice signpost and are probably more precise than carbon dating methods, but should not be taken too literal.
CONS
- The name of IESOUS CHRISTOS is not mentioned once in the entire body of the book, and only in the reference section.
Heb 1:1-3 "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, THEOS spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world."
CHRISTOS has created this world, and this fact should appear in the first chapter of any treatise!
If we acknowledge this most important fact, then many other observations evaporate, observations such as one made in the addendum: "The question of the veracity of Genesis and the veracity of Jesus Christ seem to be linked, since Christ quoted from Genesis on various occasions. There is also good indication that he accepted Genesis as historical truth."
While this is certainly true, it is a secondary information when compared to the fact that He actually created the world.
Our distorted picture of a CHRISTOS who came on the scene after 5500 (4000) years and was neither involved in the creation, nor appeared multiple times as the Angel of KYRIOS, has created an immense damage. We usually pronounce His eternity, but treat Him as if He had absolutely no function until His First Coming. This is a tragic distortion of the Good Message, which starts with Genesis and not with Matthew.
- Complete lack of any presentation of the Good Message of IESOUS CHRISTOS. What does it help if the reader could be convinced by the facts presented in the book, but is not being led to CHRISTOS?
+ Although obviously not being comprehensive and not up to date, this book(let) is a very good summary of some key findings, and sufficient in itself to debunk the theory of evolution. What I learned through many lengthy books I had to bear in the past, is beautifully packaged here.
NEUTRAL
o No errors noted (from the viewpoint of my limited technical knowledge). But I generally distrust probability calculations found in every book related to this topic. Those are a nice signpost and are probably more precise than carbon dating methods, but should not be taken too literal.
CONS
- The name of IESOUS CHRISTOS is not mentioned once in the entire body of the book, and only in the reference section.
Heb 1:1-3 "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, THEOS spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world."
CHRISTOS has created this world, and this fact should appear in the first chapter of any treatise!
If we acknowledge this most important fact, then many other observations evaporate, observations such as one made in the addendum: "The question of the veracity of Genesis and the veracity of Jesus Christ seem to be linked, since Christ quoted from Genesis on various occasions. There is also good indication that he accepted Genesis as historical truth."
While this is certainly true, it is a secondary information when compared to the fact that He actually created the world.
Our distorted picture of a CHRISTOS who came on the scene after 5500 (4000) years and was neither involved in the creation, nor appeared multiple times as the Angel of KYRIOS, has created an immense damage. We usually pronounce His eternity, but treat Him as if He had absolutely no function until His First Coming. This is a tragic distortion of the Good Message, which starts with Genesis and not with Matthew.
- Complete lack of any presentation of the Good Message of IESOUS CHRISTOS. What does it help if the reader could be convinced by the facts presented in the book, but is not being led to CHRISTOS?
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