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Complete Idiots Guide To Understanding Intelligent Design [Mass Market Paperback]

Christopher Carlisle (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Real good book, but words was too big, Oct 18 2006
This review is from: Complete Idiots Guide To Understanding Intelligent Design (Mass Market Paperback)
It ain't everday ya see a book like issun.

Thick. Heavy. More words that some hi-falootin' third grader'd know... But it's a good un.

I was nigh on to acceptin' the flyin' spaghetti monster inuh my life when this 'ere book comed along an set me straight.

God bless you, Mr. Carlisle.

Does that rime with car-gristle?
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1.0 out of 5 stars Book Is Far From Objective, May 7 2007
By Doug Mesner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Complete Idiots Guide To Understanding Intelligent Design (Mass Market Paperback)
...Also, it's self-contradictory. In a segment about atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the authors dismiss Dawkins' arguments entirely on the grounds that Dawkins is a scientist, not theologian, thus he is not qualified to speak (or write) on matters of God. What a convenient method for ignoring his case for a universe without design. Rather unexpected, coming, as it does, from a theologian pretending to write about science.

The book pretends to be a "balanced" look at the Intelligent Design controversy. Nonetheless, the book bulks the argument in such a way so as to give the impression that ID theory is somewhere on balance with Darwinian evolution by putting forward ID claims have long ago been addressed and falsified by scientists. Such claims as "Evolution runs contrary to the 2nd law of thermodynamics" show the willful ignorance of the authors. Many widely available articles explain how this asinine mis-interpretation of entropy depends on a closed system. The authors either have not done their research, or they are intentionally mis-representing the facts.

Every claim made in this book in favour of Intelligent Design has been refuted by scientists. Intellectual honesty demands that these refutations be dealt with if this book is to be considered balanced. This book does not do this.

This is a transparent attempt to make the "teach the controversy" position appear neutral and moderate while pushing the ID agenda.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Creationism in new clothes, Dec 3 2007
By John Hedley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Complete Idiots Guide To Understanding Intelligent Design (Mass Market Paperback)
Oddly enough, staunch advocates of Intelligent Design Creationism are likely to consider this book as useless mainstream science advocates do. Intelligent Design fans typically try to hide the well established fact that ID is just a new name for creationism, so a book called "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design" that makes so many old, refuted creationist arguments (ones so bad that even many creationists insist they not be used!) just hammers home the obvious reality that "ID" is merely creationism in new clothes. Carlisle and Smith have inadvertently written precisely the book that Intelligent Design advocates are most worried about -- a book that shows that "ID" and creationism are exactly the same thing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Finally, an idiot guide that's not being facetious with the title., Dec 3 2007
By R. Wood - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Complete Idiots Guide To Understanding Intelligent Design (Mass Market Paperback)
I see 2 very well qualified scientists with all the necessary degrees in evolutionary and biological sciences wrote this tripe. har har. If the credentials of the 2 authors don't give away the game that ID is nothing but rotting, decrepit religious myth painted over with a fresh coat of "scientific" sounding gloss, which was convincingly proven in the Dover case, then nothing else will. Buy and read this book only if you wish to strengthen your willful ignorance.

P.S. Isn't the 9th commandment, "Thou shall not bear false witness/lie"?
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