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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
In the United States, polls show that 44% of people believe God created human beings pretty much in their present form sometime in the last 10,000 years. 28% of the People in Britain believe that the earliest humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs! Richard Dawkins finds such survey information quite frustrating especially in view of all the discoveries made by evolutionary science over the past 150 years, and he has written this absorbing and fascinating book in another attempt to prove to people that life on earth really began at least 3.6 billion years ago and developed into the millions of present life forms through the process of evolution, a theory first described… Read more
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
If a tree falls in a forest and you are not there to hear it; does it still make a sound? According to believers in "Biocentrism" the answer is a resounding no, because a forest cannot even exist if consciousness is not there to create it! The author of this book Robert Lanza died on April 1, 2010 at the age of 93. He originally trained as an MD and spent part of his career working with the famous (or for some people, infamous) psychologist B.F. Skinner before getting involved in stem cell research. According to the blurb on the back cover he "is one of the most respected scientists in the world ... likened to Einstein". This of course is book publishing hyperbole, but there is… Read more
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12 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Near the end of this book the author, David Berlinski, states "If science in the 20th century has demonstrated anything, it is that there are limits to what we can know." I would certainly agree with this statement and is the main reason I bought the book, which I hoped would provide me with some reasons as a foundation for my skepticism. But his arguments up to that point, had left me wondering why he believed his thinking was any better than the scientific theories he was ridiculing as proof for the non-existence of God. Then the revelation came! In his acknowledgements at the end he attributes the idea for his book to Ann Coulter, a political right wing extremist who has achieved… Read more
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