Refuting Evolution: A Handbook for Students, Parents, and Teachers Countering the Latest Arguments for Evolution

by Jonathan Sarfati

Book Overview

A creationist response to the National Academy of Science's Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science. The latter, distributed nationwide to thousands of public school teachers, is an effort... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890512582
• ISBN13: 9780890512586
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Master Books
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Informative, easy to read.

This book is a response to an educators guidebook, published by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), called "Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science." The author uses this guidebook as a springboard for various quotes and introduction to creationist ideas, concepts and arguments. I'm sure the NAS didn't intend it for this purpose, but Sarfati has done a good job of rounding up the many holes and difficulties faced by those who hold to the evolutionary model. Such as:Sufarti quotes DMS Watson in Nature: : "Evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible." To which Sufarti rightly concludes: "So it's not a question of biased religious creationists versus objective scientific evolutionists; rather, it is the biases of the Christian religion versus the biases of the religion of secular humanism resulting in different interpretations of the same scientific data."For example:"For scales to have evolved into feather means that a significant amount of genetic information had to arise in the bird's DNA which was not present in that of its alleged reptile ancestor." Sarfati shows that Natural Selection actually inhibits the supposed transitional creatures from ever surviving. Natural Selection is biased toward those who are best fit to live in its present environment. Sarfati points out that Birds with their, "avian lung, with its super-efficiency, becomes especially advantageous only at very high altitudes with low oxygen levels. There would have been no selective advantage in replacing the reptilian lung."Another good point made by Sarfati is the question of what would it take for a rational person to recognize that something was designed? The SETI project uses, the criterion of "a signal with high level of specified complexity--this would prove that there was an intelligent sender, even if we had no other idea of the sender's nature." And Sarfati points out that within our cells is just that same specified complexity. Tiny motors that drive the flagellum of a bacterium and magnetic sensing systems found in many organisms, are an example of this specified complexity. But, and Sarfati's first point is right even to the end, that most evolutionists are committed to evolution, even before they open their first book, "so the evidence, overwhelming as it is, would probably have no effect." I enjoyed reading this book, as Sarfati did a good job of summarizing the many issues surrounding this debate.

An excellent response to the religious fanatics

Dr. Sarfati demolishes the evolutionary religious fanatics and the overblown claims they make in the recent NAS propaganda piece. A good solid response to attempts present evolutionism as credible or "scientific." They will not like this work, but neither will they be able to meaningfully challenge it. For its size it is as good as anything else out there (Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics would be a good companion work, and Faith, Reason and Earth History would be good for those who want to learn about the creation model, as opposed to debunking evolutionism or defending creation in general from caricatures and misrepresentations.)

Tells the Unavoidable Truth About Evolution

This book goes a long way to demonstrate that, far from being equivalent to such things as the sphericity of the earth, molecules-to-man evolution is extremely speculative. Showing that bacteria can acquire antibiotic resistance is a very different proposition from proving that life came from primordial slime, or that an ape-like creature changed into humans. The hard-core evolutionists will demonize this book all they want, but the facts that it presents just won't go away. As a degreed scientist myself, I heartily recommend it. It exposes many of the flawed arguments for evolution in a lucid manner. After reading this book, the objective reader will agree that it is about time that the intellectuals cease their "all scientists accept evolution" propaganda, face the fact that molecules-to-man evolution is NOT a proven fact of science, and recognize that many educated people reject evolution for legitimate reasons. Members of the liberal media would also do well to read this book. The fact that many religious people accept evolution proves nothing. How many religious leaders had endorsed anti-God systems of thought (fascism, Naziism, Communism) in the past?Whether he/she agrees with evolution or not, the objective reader of this book will come away with a very different perspective on evolution from that usually presented as fact. John Woodmorappe

Best Critic of Evolutionary interpretations available

If there is just one book to get, on the fallacies of evolutionism and the non sequitur reasoning that flow from evolutionary assumptions, it would be Refuting Evolution, by Dr. Sarfati! It is the best critic of current evolutionary interpretations available today!

Utterly destroys evolutionism through empirical science!

Through logic, observation and empirical science Dr. Sarfati absolutely demolish evolutionism! This is a concise, well-documented work with a solid scientific approach that everyone will appreciate. It also could be titled, "Against Indoctrination: A Rebuttal to NAS's book, Teaching about Evolution and Natural Science. Every honest scientist and every seeker of truth needs to read this book! With Dr. Sarfati (who is also a chess master), it is either check-mate or withdraw; he takes no prisoners! For the evolutionist, Unconditional Surrender is their only option! The only reason evolutionism survives to this day is NOT because of science, it is because of censorship of data that puts evolution into the light of inquiry.