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Persuasion through confusion

Evolution Made Easy!

Major Flaws in the book's reasoning.

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Where's the intelligence in Intelligent Design?

What's Darwin Got to Do With It: A Friendly Conversation About Evolution
John L. Wiester , Jonathan Moneymaker , and Janet Moneymaker
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What's Darwin got to do with it?When it comes to evolution, quite a bit! But many people don't understand Darwin, creationism and intelligent design. Here's a book that makes sense of it all!A group of scholars, teachers, writers and illustrators have teamed up to create an easy-to-read introduction and critique to this important issue. You'll enjoy the lively and funny conversation that unfolds between two professors and they explore what science can explain about life. You'll find out what logic has to do with it. You'll see whether the changing beak sizes of Galapagos Islands finches prove Darwinism. And you'll enjoy the adventures of Darwinian superstars "Mutaman" and "Selecta."There's more to it all than you ever thought. But this witty and wise book makes it easier to understand than ever before!

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Persuasion through confusion.......2006-07-04

What a great book for brainwashing the youngsters. Hopefully soon
all American middle schools will carry this book, then biology
class will be as simple as saying 'God did it!' 'Recess!' and us
Americans can finally have our children get better grades then
those other snobby countries with all that fancy evolution jibber
jabber that requires students to 'study'. Children study?! - what
nonsense!

Evolution Made Easy!.......2006-06-22

Feeling primitive? Unevolved? Inorganic? Then try a bowl of Primordial Soup! What's Darwin Got To Do With It? is an illustrated friendly conversation about evolution and what science can explain about life. Aimed at younger students, this comic-book style work helps students understand if finch beaks really prove Darwinism is true or if the encoded message in DNA implies an intelligent designer.

The book opens by helping students to understand important terminology. What does evolution mean? Some people say evolution just means change through time. But simple evidence of change does not necessarily mean that new phyla can emerge or new body structures can evolve. Thus, we have microevolution and macroevolution.

The book explains in illustrated form why intelligent design is the best explanation for life. When we see letters on a hillside spelling out "Welcome to Victoria," we have a valid rationale to believe that that the letters were designed. Similarly, if a radio signal from outer space said "hello earthlings," we would have good reason to infer design. But what about when we find an encoded sequence in our DNA which, using a complicated sequence of biochemical commands, creates miniature motors which resemble human-designed engines? This and other topics concerning intelligent design are presented in clear language with a wealth of illustrations.

This book is a must read for young students who are still learning the basics of science but want to understand evolution and design. As Phillip Johnson wrote when he reviewed the book, it's "more fun than a barrel of Australopithecines."

Major Flaws in the book's reasoning........2006-03-19

I read this book to see what is going on in the Creationist's mind. Boy, oh, boy, I learnt a lot.

A lot about how totally idiotic many of the arguments are, that is.
I was just skimming through the book and not thinking about anything carefully, and I found no less than 17 Flaws in the book's reasoning. Considering the fact that the book is mostly pictures, 17 flaws when a boy is just flicking through is pathetic.

One of the main flaws of this book is it assumes that with evolution, you rearrange the Genetic Code all at once and said it was like scrambling a computer program's code. That is simply not true. Evolution is the slow manipulation of the Genetic Code. The Genetic Code is changed little by little. You don't just turn the Genetic Code on it's head. If the code works, it progresses from there. If it does not, the Mutation is just one of Billions of Genetic Dead Ends, and nothing happens until the next mutation comes along.

It is also self Contradicting, and there are massive Loopholes in it's logic. The most blatant example is the fact that it doesn't actually try to prove Intelligent Design/creationism is true, it merely tries to prove evolution is wrong (Albiet, Unsuccesfully), working by the analogy that: "If Intelligent Design is correct, then Evolution is wrong." However, Just because something is true doesn't mean the opposite is ture. In other words, IF Evolution is wrong, it doesn't mean Intelligent Design/Creationism is correct. This is along the lines of one of the things they said in the book.

A terrible book.

Lighten up!.......2005-09-25

This may look like a comic book, but don't assume its authors are shallow! Newman has doctorates in both science (astrophysics from Cornell) and in theology. He understands science and has thought deeply about these issues. But he also has a lively sense of humor and a dry wit.

I gave it a one-star deduction for being a little unfair to the evolutionist. He stacks the deck a little. But, hey, the evolutionists run just about everything, and when was the last time they let someone else have a say? Anyone who doesn't buy into the Neo-Darwinian dogma is labeled by them a *creationist*, lumping him in with Young Earth hicks. So Newman should get a little latitude, don't you think?

The final section is the best.

Go read one of the other more serious Intelligent Design books by William Dembski, Hugh Ross, Michael Behe, Stephen Meyers (Newman has a very good essay in the collection edited by Dembski entitled *Mere Creation*). But when you want to lighten up and have some fun with this subject, get this book!

Where's the intelligence in Intelligent Design?.......2005-06-04

WDGTDWI is a good introduction to creationist literature and its misleading rhetorical tricks, illogical arguments, sly ad hominem attacks, and inconsistent statements.

WDGTDWI makes a great show of explaining logical concepts, apparently believing that claiming to be logical is the same as actually being logical; but the errors in logic are many and obvious, starting with the book's format, a fictional debate between an evolutionist and a creationist. That debate format sets up a clever little debating trick, called a "false dichotomy," that creationists use all the time.

False dichotomy arguments have three steps. First, the creationist presents Darwinism and intelligent design creationism (IDC) as the only two possible choices. Second, he points out alleged flaws in Darwinism. Finally, he argues that if Darwinism is flawed, then creationism must necessarily be correct, since it is the only other option available.

Notice that this strategy allows the creationist to focus exclusively on the flaws, real or imagined, of evolution, while keeping creationism itself safely out of the spotlight. That is crucial, because creationism is so flimsy, it cannot withstand even the slightest scrutiny.

The false dichotomy strategy places great emphasis on mud-slinging, which is why creationists "go negative" so much. Think back to books or conversations you've had with creationists. I bet they rarely offered positive arguments for creationism, and instead spent most of their time attacking evolution. That's the false dichotomy strategy. And it's completely illogical. (Which makes it pretty funny to see favorable reviewers gushing about how "logical" the authors were!)

For dichotomy arguments to be valid, the two options must be cumulatively exhaustive (no other options are possible) AND mutually exclusive (they can't both be true simultaneously). For example, let's say X is found dead in a locked room, along with suspects A and B. If A proves that he could not possibly have killed X, does that necessarily mean that B is guilty? Not at all. A and B are not cumulatively exhaustive. There are other possibilities. X may have killed himself, died of natural causes, or been killed by C, before A or B entered the room. So proving A innocent, does NOT prove B guilty. Furthermore, A and B are not mutually exclusive either; they could have co-operated in murdering X. So proving B guilty does NOT necessarily prove A innocent.

WDGTDWI's dichotomy argument has exactly the same flaws. Regarding the cause of the origin of species, Darwinism and IDC are not cumulatively exhaustive options. There are other options available, including theistic evolution (TE), deistic evolution (DE), non-theistic design theories, such as Raelianism, and other options, such as panspermia, self-organization, Lamarckism, etc. So even if the authors showed "Darwinism" to be wrong, it would still not follow that IDC must be correct, since TE, DE, or some other option might be correct instead.

Nor are the two options mutually exclusive. On 139, the authors admit that the designer might use common descent (evolution) in accomplishing his design. This is a huge blunder, completely destroying WDGTDWI's entire argument.

In short, since "Darwinism" and IDC are neither cumulatively exhaustive nor mutually exclusive options, WDGTDWI's dichotomy argument fails. The whole book is one big error in logic.

There are other serious blunders too.

IDCs desperately covet the mantle of scientific respectability, so they can weasel their way into public school science classes; thus the authors insist (16) that their most important rule is "stick to the evidence," apparently accepting traditional science's emphasis on empirical data. But two pages earlier, the authors stated that IDC relies on non-empirical, non-objective evidence (whatever that means; Scripture perhaps?). It seems that IDCs want the same respect that scientists have, but they refuse to do what scientists do to earn that respect.

WDGTDWI insists that IDC is based on scientific evidence, NOT on religious appeals to Scripture (p. 140); but WDGTDWI repeatedly refers to divine purpose, indicates that divine purpose is a necessary aspect of design, takes great pains to link evolution to atheism and IDC to theism, and the book's one specific citation (p. 9) is to the Bible. How is that NOT religious?

On 75, rebutting Steven Gould's argument that the panda's thumb doesn't look designed, the authors correctly state that just because the thumb doesn't fit Gould's idea of design, that doesn't mean it couldn't fit someone else's idea of design. The authors' analysis is completely correct, but that same analysis demolishes their own, anti-evolutionist argument. Just because evolution doesn't fit their idea of design, that doesn't mean it couldn't fit someone else's idea of design. Evolution itself may be a designed process, so it's completely illogical for creationists to insist that evidence of design negates evolution. The "design negates evolution" argument is a complete non sequitur, showing how illogical creationists are.

On 102, the authors state that Darwinism implies that man's life has no purpose, and that's bad. Then on 104, they state that Darwinism implies that man's life does have purpose, and that's bad too! Huh??? Expecting consistency in a creationist comic book is probably expecting too much, but couldn't they keep their story straight just for three consecutive pages?

WDGTDWI implicitly rejects the Genesis story that Earth is only a few thousand years old and that Noah's Flood was a worldwide catastrophe (p. 10). Unlike other IDC spokesmen, WDGTDWI doesn't openly insult Young-Earth literalists, but YECs are still not going to be happy with WDGTDWI's anti-literalist position.

Finally, on 145, the authors state that "Darwinism," as they define it, is rarely, if ever, contained in high school textbooks. So why did the authors spend 145 pages bashing a theory that apparently exists only in their own minds? Can you spell S-T-R-A-W-M-A-N?

WDGTDWI highlights the comic-book level of IDC "thinking." Faulty logic, glaring inconsistencies, and, finally, an admission that their target was just a meaningless strawman. And that's "intelligent" design!

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Three-disc CD-ROM multimedia presentation of the most important principles of the algebra- and trigonometry-based physics course. Content screens provide in-depth coverage of abstract and often difficult principles, building connections between physical concepts and mathematics. The presentation contains more than 350 movies-oboth animated and live video-including laboratory demonstrations, "real world" examples, graphic models, and step-by-step explanations of essential mathematics. An accompanying workbook contains practical physics problems directly related to the presentation, along with worked solutions. This CD can be used with any algebra/trig based introductory physics text.

Workbook to Accompany Core Concepts in College Physics Cd-rom Algebra/trigonometry Version

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Workbook to Accompany Core Concepts in College Physics Cd-rom Algebra/trigonometry Version

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Core Concepts in College Physics
Saunders College
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Core Concepts in College Physics
Saunders College , and Saunders Co
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Core Concepts in Physics
J. Serwav
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Three-disc CD-ROM multimedia presentation of the most important principles of the calculus-based physics course. Content screens provide in-depth coverage of abstract and often difficult principles, building connections between physical concepts and mathematics. The presentation contains more than 350 movies--both animated and live video--including laboratory demonstrations, "real world" examples, graphic models, and step-by-step explanations of essential mathematics. An accompanying workbook contains practical physics problems directly related to the presentation, along with worked solutions. This CD can be used with any calculus-based introductory physics text.

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Core Concepts in Physics
SERWAY , BEICHNER , and JEWETT
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Saunders Core Concepts in College Physics

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Saunders Core Concepts in College Physics

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Physics for Scientists & Engineers: Saunder's Core Concepts in Physics
Raymond A. Serway
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College Physics: Core Concepts with Workbook
Raymond A. Serway
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Core Concepts in College Physics
Saunders; Co, Saunders College
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Fun Way to Expand Your Vocabulary

The Princeton Review Word Smart II CD: Building an Even More Educated Vocabulary (LL(R) Prnctn Review on Audio)
Julian Fleisher , and Adam Robinson
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WordPlay: 550+ Words You Need to Know

ASIN: 0609811088
Release Date: 2001-08-07

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Some interesting word facts:

• The word "noisome" had nothing whatsoever to do with noise.
• "Ordinance" and "ordnance" have two distinct meanings.
• An "errant" fool is a fool who is lost, while and "arrant" fool is one whose foolishness is obvious.

Word Smart II exposes hundreds of examples like these, so readers will never be surprised by vocabulary again. More than 70,000 people have improved their vocabularies with the original Word Smart, but an educated and powerful vocabulary doesn't stop growing with one book. All of the 848 entries in Word Smart II belong in an impressive vocabulary. Learning and using these words effectively can help readers to get better grades, score higher on tests, and communicate more confidently at work.

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The Word Smart II audio program takes up where Word Smart left off. Based on the best-selling Word Smart and Word Smart II books (more than 200,000 copies sold), this four-hour CD course (plus one extra bonus CD) continues the education. Word Smart II introduces more words that people truly need to know to do well in school and in their careers.

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Great.......2007-03-09

This is a wonderful program, I really do enjoy the way that it is structured. It is designed to both educate and entertain you, it is phenomenol by all means. I highly recommend it.

Best Delivery in Existence.......2007-02-15

I truly love this series. I wish they would record the entire dictionary the same way. If you want to listen to a super enjoyable vocabulary, this is it. The words might not be as advanced as you are looking for, but the fun in listening is worth the few dollars spent: five stars.

Ineffective.......2006-12-03

I bought volume 1 & 2 together. Here's my review of volume 1 which also applies to volume 2:

I bought this product with hopes of a more enjoyable way to expand my vocabulary. I tried to like this product (especially since it's a good chunk of money) and I gave it a fair amount of my time. In the end, I found it to be ineffective for these reasons:
- The script is boring. It tries to be witty, but really comes of as cheesy/corny
- I found myself constantly rewinding. The material just doesn't sink in. The stories and dialogue aren't memorable. Perhaps this is so because of the pace. I'd rather have fewer words and actually learn those words, than sweep through many words and have to backtrack. I'd say on average the amount of time spent listening to the material was TRIPLED because of rewinding.
- The voices are a bit stuffy and robotic to me

In the end I stopped listening to Word Smart. It was just too laborious.

Light entertainment only.......2005-03-18

I bought this CD thinking that it would be a productive way to spend my commutes in the morning. It was however only mildly more productive than listening to idiot DJs on the radio. I think that I knew 80% of the words by 15 years of age. The only benefit gained was hearing them pronouced but being British I had grave suspicions concerning the US pronounciations! The two presenters are funny and quite listenable. I would recommend these CDs to high school students who do not read books but still hope to master thre English language well enough to pass exams.

Fun Way to Expand Your Vocabulary.......2004-10-30

This sets contains 5 CDs, and goes over about 230 words. Good number of the words on these recordings seem to be on a high-school level.

The first CD covers the vocabulary related to: The Raw and The Cooked; Stop and Go; Crime and Punishment.

The second CD coverts the vocabulary related to: At Home and Abroad; Hide and Seek; War and Peace.

The third CD covers the vocabulary related to: The Fiendish and The Friendly; Body and Soul; Chaos and Control.

The fourth CD covers the vocabulary related to: Old News; Rich Man, Poor Man; The Rise and Fall.

The fifth CD covers the vocabulary related to: Church and State; Franks and Beans.

The recordings are very entertaining to listen to. After defining the words, they are dramatized, often in a humorous way, adding fun to the learning process.

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Adam and Even
Terry Schiffman
Manufacturer: Authors Choice Press
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Adam and Even is a satire featuring a little angel, Skeetzie Pooker, Lucifer and his fallen angels, and the creation of man and woman. It is the story of LuciferÂ's having brief regrets over his evil intentions for woman. It is the story of a loving and forgiving Deity who allows one fallen angel, Ms. Sadie Sue Rose Gloria, to return to heaven, the generous reward bestowed on the littlest angel for his bravery, and the creation of the guardian angel.

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Even a Flower
Adam Elliot
Manufacturer: Adam Elliot, LLC
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ASIN: 097224980X

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The fascinating memoir of an accomplished lawyer and former law professor, whose passion for self examination yields an unexpected wealth of psychological and spiritual insight. "Even A Flower..." brings the author's keen intellect into dialogue with his fervent intuition. The result is an astonishingly fruitful marriage of thought and feeling--a soulful outpouring of fresh spirituality, rooted in the conflicts and uncertainties of everyday life.

Even a Flower: A Memoir on Emotional Integrity and Spiritual Breadwinning

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An Unusual, Touching, and Revealing Spiritual Journey

Even a Flower: A Memoir on Emotional Integrity and Spiritual Breadwinning
Adam Elliot
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An accomplished lawyer submits the "brief" of his life--a surprising, psycho-spiritual drama filled with intelligence, integrity and inspiration.

The fascinating memoir of an attorney whose passion for self-examination yields an unexpected wealth of psychological and spiritual insight.

Even a Flower...brings author Adam Elliot's keen intellect into dialogue with his fervent intuition. The result is an astonishingly fruitful marriage of thought and feeling, a soulful outpouring of fresh spirituality, rooted in the conflicts and uncertainties of everyday life. Dedicated "to every heart so foolish as to have no doubt; and to every mind so arrogant as to have no faith," this remarkable work offers a new psycho-spiritual paradigm--one that speaks to and through mind and heart, left-brain and right, simultaneously. Those who have longed for such a synthesis won't be able to put this down.

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An Unusual, Touching, and Revealing Spiritual Journey.......2001-04-21

"Even a Flower" captivated and inspired me as I read about the author's spiritual and emotional odyssey from childhood through marriage, fatherhood and beyond. Not only does the author tell the story of his unique journey from traditional to mystical to "far out" religious experiences, he also delivers his inspirational and extremely intelligent ideas about the meaning of the journey. Written in an intensely personal but never overly sentimental style, the book reveals the author's deeply held beliefs as well as his very deeply evolved ideas about spirituality and the meaning of relationship. The depth of these ideas makes for a spiritually and intellectually satisfying book, but despite the seriousness of the author's thoughts, the book is also both touching and funny. Its style is by turns anecdotal and instructive, and filled with tenderness, love, humor, and valuable insights. The subtitle of this book indicates it was written by a lawyer; if you ever had any negative pre-conceptions about what lawyers were like, you will probably change your mind after you read this book, which was clearly written by someone with a huge amount of integrity, sensitivity, and ethics.

Even A Flower: Learnings On Emotional Integrity And Spiritual Breadwinning

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Even A Flower: Learnings On Emotional Integrity And Spiritual Breadwinning
Adam Perach
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Animal Welfare with a Twist in the Tale

.... Even Little Sparrows!
R. J. Adams
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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"…Even Little Sparrows!" is a semi-autobiographical novel set in a fictitious English Midlands town around the mid-1970's.

Robert Adams, the main character, has passed his final examinations and is posted to the Wappingdon and District RSPCA Branch, his first `station' as a fully-fledged Inspector of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Britain's largest and most respected animal welfare charity.

Wappingdon is a sprawling, densely-populated industrial town in slow decline following a heyday of steel production in the early twentieth century. The local RSPCA Branch operates a busy animal hospital and kennels complex, and the Inspector's workload is high. Bob would have preferred a more rural setting for his first `station', but he is determined to make the best of his situation and sets to work with a will, despite an obvious inexperience of the job.

Endeavouring to keep abreast of the ever-increasing worksheets filling his `in-tray', Bob finds himself constantly side-tracked by matters not strictly related to an Inspector's brief.

When Eric McDougal, his predecessor, secretly returns to enlist Bob's help in proving Branch Treasurer Basil Ambrose a crook, he reluctantly agrees; but obtaining evidence to support that allegation proves more difficult than anticipated and his resulting scrapes and adventures soon begin to involve the influential Branch Secretary Horace O'Flynn, local broadcaster and mayor of Wappingdon, and other members of the hospital staff, including demure, black stocking-ed Head Nurse, Anna Caldwell with whom he rapidly becomes infatuated.

Though many books have been written on the subject of animal welfare, "…Even Little Sparrows!" differs from its contemporaries, and whilst highlighting the problems of suffering animals, focuses primarily on those people carrying out this vital work: their problems, personalities, lives and loves.

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Animal Welfare with a Twist in the Tale.......2004-03-04

I came on this book by chance whilst browsing the publisher's website and was very glad I did. I am involved with animal welfare in a voluntary capacity, and this book promised to be different from its contempories. It certainly lived up to that promise. Set in a fictitious town in 1970's England, the story follows the ups and downs of a newly-appointed inspector for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The author not only portrays aspects of animal welfare in a fresh and exciting format, but also leads the reader, by way of the main character's tortuous love-life and often hilarious adventures, to a climactic cliffhanger that left me thirsting for the sequel.
You don't need a wild enthusiasm for animal welfare to enjoy this book, though you may develop one whilst reading it.

Even More Practical Topics for the Early Years (Practical Topics for the Primary School)

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Even More Practical Topics for the Early Years (Practical Topics for the Primary School)
Janet Adams
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The James Adams Floating Theatre
C. Richard Gillespie
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Six to Break Even
Mary Scott Adams
Manufacturer: Rand McNally
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ASIN: B000P527K6

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Six to break even
Mary Scott Adams
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