You are hereReview: Who Was Adam?Year: 2006 Title: Who Was Adam? A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man Issue: 5 Date: September-October Among the creationist books that adorn my shelves, Who was Adam? is noteworthy for its fine style and rare candor. Even the introductory section recounting scientific knowledge of human evolution is remarkably well-written, yet nuanced enough to allow a modicum of doubt. And although the authors are irritatingly repetitive as they pound their point home, one can sense their genuine enthusiasm for the subject and their fervent belief in their conclusions. Well-written, however, is not the same as logically sound. Colorado Springs (CO): NavPress, 2005. 299 pages. Page(s): 37–38 topics: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Review: Creation as ScienceYear: 2006 Title: Creation as Science: A Testable Model Approach to End the Creation-Evolution Wars Issue: 5 Date: September-October Those familiar with Hugh Ross and his Reasons to Believe (RTB) ministry will find many familiar themes in Creation as Science. Ross is an old-earth creationist with a background in astronomy who believes that science and the Bible tell the same history. Ross seeks to prove that the universe has been fine-tuned for human civilization by the biblical God and could not have come about by chance. The point of this book is to challenge others, creationists and non-creationists alike, to compare their models of earth history with his, using scientific data as a test. Colorado Springs (CO): NavPress, 2006. 291 pages Page(s): 35–37 topics: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Review: Origins of LifeYear: 2007 Title: Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolution Models Face Off Issue: 3–4 The standing of evolutionary biology is independent of the origin of life. This has been true from the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859. In that work, Darwin allotted less than a page toward the end of 670 pages of text to the question. The last two sentences of the sixth edition read: Date: May-August Colorado Springs (CO): NavPress, 2004. 298 pages Page(s): 45–48 ReferencesLazcano A, Miller SL. 1994. How long did it take for life to begin and evolve to cyanobacteria? Journal of Molecular Evolution 39 (6): 546-54. Lazcano A, Miller SL. 1996. The origin and early evolution of life: Prebiotic chemistry, the pre-RNA world, and time. Cell 85: 793-8. Moreland JP, editor. 1994. The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for the Intelligent Designer. Downers Grove (IL): InterVarsity Press. Numbers RL. 1993. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press. Orgel L. 1973. The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Pavlov A, Kasting JK, Eigenbrode JL, Freeman KH. 2001. Organic haze in Earth's early atmosphere: Source of low-13C Late Archean kerogens? Geology 29 (11): 1003-6. Rosing TM. 1999. 13C-depleted carbon microparticles in >3700-Ma sea-floor sedimentary rocks from west Greenland. Science 283 (5402): 674-6. Shapiro R. 1986. Origins: A Skeptics Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth. New York: Summit Books. Scott EC. 2005. Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press. Thaxton CB, Bradley WL, Olsen RL. 1984. The Mystery of Life's Origin. New York: Philosophical Library. Woese C. 1998. The universal ancestor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 95 (12): 6854-9. Woese C. 2002. On the evolution of cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 99 (13): 8742-7. This version might differ slightly from the print publication. topics: Pages
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