Content tagged with “evolution”

“The Cambrian Period was an evolutionary timeframe occurring about 541 million years ago, and lasting for about 55 million years. It was named for the Latin name for Wales (‘Cambria’), which is where considerable fossil evidence was discovered. The Cambrian Explosion was an event during that period….”

“This is a book in favor of intelligent design – of the idea of creationism – which I’ve historically been very skeptical of. The promise is right there in the title: Darwinism, or naturalistic evolution, is at odds with Christianity and must be ‘defeated.’ The author is a law professor at at UC…”

“This is a comprehensive book, to the point where you would kind of need to read it in a group, or make it a point to read it very slowly, synthesizing and integrating as you go. Just reading it from start to finish probably won’t accomplish much. This book is an examination of how human perceive a…”

“This is a re-read for me. I originally read it 10 years ago, and it’s still amazing. Frances Collins was the head of the genome project. He led the team that mapped the human genome. He is also a Christian. He discusses the reconciliation of science and faith, and makes a compelling case that the…”

“This is an interesting book about how perfection can be damaging sometimes. It’s a collection of stories about how ‘messes’ – or, imperfections – contributed to some system to make it better. In some senses, it reminded me of A Perfect Mess or Antifragile , but with a more evolutionary bent. How…”

“Wonderful book examining the conflict between evolution and creationism. The author is a professor at a Christian college. To be fair, I am tempted to rate this book lower, primarily because it was lazy about it’s subtitle – and I’m a stickler for titles and subtitles. You either support them or…”

“I can’t decide if this book was depressing or not. It came out 19 years ago, and even though the author is a little behind in his predictions, a lot of what he wrote about is slowing coming true. ‘The Singularity’ is that moment when technology kind of …takes over. Kurzweil didn’t come up with the…”

“This was a…nice book. I don’t think it was very ambitious, but it basically just explains why humans love stories. It does this from a few different angles: dreams, games, rationalizing, etc. I can’t really say that I learned a lot from this book. In large part, it was just kind of a confirmation…”

“I feel guilty saying that I ‘read’ this book, because I abandoned it after about 100 pages. I just didn’t understand what the author was getting at. This bothers me, because I enjoyed Guns, Germs, and Steel , which is Diamond’s more famous work. The first chapter was a long discussion of his…”