Percy writes:
Perhaps someone can recommend something that's balanced and not too long or detailed.
For a long time now, I have been convinced that there really is no good book to recommend to creationists. The ones that present real evidence are just too (pardon the pun) complex. The ones that are easier to absorb have too much potential to give false impressions.
This is why I think Dawkins has decided to say and write what he says and writes. I think he realizes that the evidence necessary to make a convincing case for the benefits of science are just too academically inclined for ordinary folks to understand. On the other hand, if he makes it too simple, the evidence themselves are misrepresented. What is one to do but pulls out one's hair, shakes the creationist, and says "what's wrong with you?"
In other words, I think he's just suffering from what many of us suffer from time to time: frustration.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: an absolutely horrible book.
You really think so? A lot of what he says in that book are alligned with many of the conventional views of supersitions... or at least that's how I perceived it. Then again, I know zip about psychology anyway.
We are BOG. Resistance is voltage over current.
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