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Brilliant: Made in the Image of God
This coffee-table-sized hardcover uses a timeline of scientific and archaeological facts to validate that the Creation account of the Bible is accurate. Cultures throughout the world are filled with mysteries which do not fit the pervasive evolutionary time-frame, but make perfect sense if the Biblical timeline of history is accepted. Brilliant takes the Bible seriously and every page contains an artifact from some ancient culture testifying to the reality of these true events of history.
Every two-page spread is a different topic filled with revelations showing that the biblical timeline is correct and the millions-of-years evolutionary time-frame could not possibly be true. For
• Soft, non-decayed dinosaur tissue has been documented inside of numerous dinosaur bones. This is absolutely impossible if these bones are millions of years old but perfectly fits the burial of dinosaurs 4350 years ago during Noah’s flood. Yet professors showing this information to students have been fired. Other pages display ancient burial stones from Peru revealing drawings of dinosaurs and ancient medical technology – both testifying to mankind’s brilliance and recent creation.
• The ice age was a direct consequence of the global flood. This is carefully explained and documented throughout the book. Following the flood, mankind was traveling the world looking for places to settle and seeking new sources of raw materials. One page documents an ancient map showing the coastline of Antarctica BEFORE it was covered by ice of the ice age. Modern textbooks place the start of the ice age starting 200,000 years ago - making this map impossibility. The Bible would place the ice age after the flood - meaning the existence of this map confirms biblical reality because people after the flood would have been exploring this area before it was covered with ice and documented what they found.
• Carbon-14 levels would have radically shifted following the flood and the implications of this are explained so that readers clearly understand why this method of dating cultures gives erroneous dates and has mislead people as to the true age of ancient artifacts.
• Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man were simply races of people living in a harsh ice age environment immediately after the flood. They were actually highly intelligent human beings who developed chemical glue compounds which even modern researchers have struggled to reproduce and artwork few today could duplicate. There were obviously as intelligent and creative as modern man.
• Ancient Chinese artifacts document events from the Garden of Eden in both the written symbols of their language and ancient bronze sculptures.
• Pyramid structures build by ancient civilizations have been documented from around the world and had to have been produced simultaneously with the Egyptian pyramids. Even today it is debated how these ancient cultures could have developed such advanced technology so early in human history. Brilliant shows how this knowledge came from a source which predates the flood of Noah (i.e. knowledge from brilliant people living before the flood would have come through the flood with Noah and his family) and shows how multiple civilizations containing millions of people would have rapidly developed within 4-5 centuries of the flood.
In general, Christians are woefully ignorant of how to fit the ice age, ape-men, archeological discoveries, continental plate tectonics, and/or ancient Chinese/Egyptian/Peruvian/and other cultures into a real Biblical timeline. Brilliant shows how all these things not only logically fit a Biblical perspective but confirm its accuracy while contradicting the evolutionary perspective.
Every two-page spread is a different topic filled with revelations showing that the biblical timeline is correct and the millions-of-years evolutionary time-frame could not possibly be true. For
• Soft, non-decayed dinosaur tissue has been documented inside of numerous dinosaur bones. This is absolutely impossible if these bones are millions of years old but perfectly fits the burial of dinosaurs 4350 years ago during Noah’s flood. Yet professors showing this information to students have been fired. Other pages display ancient burial stones from Peru revealing drawings of dinosaurs and ancient medical technology – both testifying to mankind’s brilliance and recent creation.
• The ice age was a direct consequence of the global flood. This is carefully explained and documented throughout the book. Following the flood, mankind was traveling the world looking for places to settle and seeking new sources of raw materials. One page documents an ancient map showing the coastline of Antarctica BEFORE it was covered by ice of the ice age. Modern textbooks place the start of the ice age starting 200,000 years ago - making this map impossibility. The Bible would place the ice age after the flood - meaning the existence of this map confirms biblical reality because people after the flood would have been exploring this area before it was covered with ice and documented what they found.
• Carbon-14 levels would have radically shifted following the flood and the implications of this are explained so that readers clearly understand why this method of dating cultures gives erroneous dates and has mislead people as to the true age of ancient artifacts.
• Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man were simply races of people living in a harsh ice age environment immediately after the flood. They were actually highly intelligent human beings who developed chemical glue compounds which even modern researchers have struggled to reproduce and artwork few today could duplicate. There were obviously as intelligent and creative as modern man.
• Ancient Chinese artifacts document events from the Garden of Eden in both the written symbols of their language and ancient bronze sculptures.
• Pyramid structures build by ancient civilizations have been documented from around the world and had to have been produced simultaneously with the Egyptian pyramids. Even today it is debated how these ancient cultures could have developed such advanced technology so early in human history. Brilliant shows how this knowledge came from a source which predates the flood of Noah (i.e. knowledge from brilliant people living before the flood would have come through the flood with Noah and his family) and shows how multiple civilizations containing millions of people would have rapidly developed within 4-5 centuries of the flood.
In general, Christians are woefully ignorant of how to fit the ice age, ape-men, archeological discoveries, continental plate tectonics, and/or ancient Chinese/Egyptian/Peruvian/and other cultures into a real Biblical timeline. Brilliant shows how all these things not only logically fit a Biblical perspective but confirm its accuracy while contradicting the evolutionary perspective.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2014
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October 12, 2018
This book is really interesting. I personally love the facts and the layout design this book has. I know I'll be going back to this book time and time again. (If you don't agree with my faith or this book don't bother me about it.)
Cover
The title and cover go really well hand in hand. Just using a segment of Michelangelo painting was all it needs to be eye catching. I can see this as a book on a shelf where within a minute you will either put it back of fall in love with it.
Story
Being broken up into time zones is a great touch and the facts show in this book the ironic side of evolution. It does challenge itself and it's evidence. Some arguments are feasible to down right petty. (I mean feasible in a convoluted way.)
The pictures are clear and it's easy to understand what is going on through the book. I enjoyed it.
Cover
The title and cover go really well hand in hand. Just using a segment of Michelangelo painting was all it needs to be eye catching. I can see this as a book on a shelf where within a minute you will either put it back of fall in love with it.
Story
Being broken up into time zones is a great touch and the facts show in this book the ironic side of evolution. It does challenge itself and it's evidence. Some arguments are feasible to down right petty. (I mean feasible in a convoluted way.)
The pictures are clear and it's easy to understand what is going on through the book. I enjoyed it.
January 12, 2018
Those who are determined to believe that life evolved on this planet through a long and tedious process are going to hate this book. I love it.
The author is not the sort of writer that will go into a lot of scientific detail. He is simply pointing out areas where the biblical account of creation is evident in the history of the world. I particularly love the Ika stones. It gave me enough of a hint to go researching it myself.
The author is not the sort of writer that will go into a lot of scientific detail. He is simply pointing out areas where the biblical account of creation is evident in the history of the world. I particularly love the Ika stones. It gave me enough of a hint to go researching it myself.
May 26, 2020
This book is difficult to read & see the images as it is a PDF copy not formatted for Kindle. This book should be converted to the Kindle format for image clarity. I had to order a physical hard copy to read it. Content is good but I give it 2 stars for poor image quality.
December 6, 2014
I found this book to be absolutely riveting. The facts Bruce Malone presents in his book Brilliant: Made in the Image of God are fascinating and astounding. I seldom read nonfiction as rapidly as I do fiction, but each page of this book presents one amazing fact after another, drawing me to keep reading.
The glimpses into ancient civilizations that the author provides give me an entirely different perspective on our distant ancestors. He presents evidence that speaks to skillful surgical procedures, detailed feats of architectural genius, exquisite artistic expression, and a sophisticated language created from cords of rope. This is only a smattering of the ancient wonders chronicled in Brilliant. The ingenuity and imagination of these civilizations rivals the technology of modern man.
Mr. Malone parallels his findings with the Biblical timeline and casts a shadow over increasingly popular evolutionary beliefs. The facts presented in Brilliant are bound to entice and expand the mind of those who like to delve into the supposedly unexplained in pursuit of truth.
I would recommend this book to any reader who likes ancient history as well as archaeological and scientific discovery. Even if a reader holds firm to an evolutionary view, this book contains many interesting facts that entertain and educate.
Thank you to Search for the Truth Publications, from whom I received a complimentary copy of Brilliant: Made in the Image of God in exchange for my honest review.
The glimpses into ancient civilizations that the author provides give me an entirely different perspective on our distant ancestors. He presents evidence that speaks to skillful surgical procedures, detailed feats of architectural genius, exquisite artistic expression, and a sophisticated language created from cords of rope. This is only a smattering of the ancient wonders chronicled in Brilliant. The ingenuity and imagination of these civilizations rivals the technology of modern man.
Mr. Malone parallels his findings with the Biblical timeline and casts a shadow over increasingly popular evolutionary beliefs. The facts presented in Brilliant are bound to entice and expand the mind of those who like to delve into the supposedly unexplained in pursuit of truth.
I would recommend this book to any reader who likes ancient history as well as archaeological and scientific discovery. Even if a reader holds firm to an evolutionary view, this book contains many interesting facts that entertain and educate.
Thank you to Search for the Truth Publications, from whom I received a complimentary copy of Brilliant: Made in the Image of God in exchange for my honest review.
November 25, 2014
"Brilliant" is a coffee-table style book that looks at 51 evidences--from the huge, perfectly fitted stones used by many ancient cultures to brain surgery to earthquake detectors--which show that ancient man was more intelligent and technologically advanced than we may assume. He uses a Biblical timeline on the bottom of the page to show when in time the evidence was probably created and a map to show where it was found.
The book is full of colorful pictures of the evidence. The text gave a good description of the evidence and what it tells us about ancient humans. I think this would be a great book for all Christian tweens, teens, and adults, but especially those interested in history or ancient cultures.
I received this book as a review copy from a publicist.
The book is full of colorful pictures of the evidence. The text gave a good description of the evidence and what it tells us about ancient humans. I think this would be a great book for all Christian tweens, teens, and adults, but especially those interested in history or ancient cultures.
I received this book as a review copy from a publicist.
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