The natural sciences know nothing of evolution

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Serious Challenges - esp Ch. 4 & 5 - Not difficult to read

The natural sciences know nothing of evolution
A. E Wilder-Smith
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Serious Challenges - esp Ch. 4 & 5 - Not difficult to read.......2006-05-29

I expected a shallow anti-evolution critique in this book, given its absolutist title.

Boy, was I wrong. Prof. Wilder-Smith has marshaled some of the most powerful arguments I have ever seen raised against the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. If you think that "evolution is a proven, irrefutable fact," then you should read this book and figure out how to overcome its incisive questions and well-argued positions.

Particularly strong are chapters 4 and 5, which deal with the genesis of biological information and the questions about how biological systems were programmed via the processes of undirected mutation and natural selection.

In a nutshell, the theory of evolution offers no credible explanation for how undirected material processes (e.g. of physics and chemistry) can create a code, along with an encoder and decoder mechanism. Thus, when you see a code, along with an encoder and decoder, then you have found almost irrefutable evidence that an intelligent being existed to create the encoder, code, and decoder.

It may sound immodest, but I had independently developed this line of argument (in a currently unpublished manuscript) before I read this book. I must update my own work now, to include this book as a citation and add some of its observations. I have not yet seen these arguments addressed or rebutted in the pro-evolution literature.

If you are a skeptic of evolution, then you'll find ample new ideas and insights here. This is not a mere rehash of dinosaurs and fossils.

This book is fairly easy to read, as science-oriented books go. Few if any math equations appear, and most jargon terms are defined in the text somewhere (use a yellow marker to assist your recollection). It is easier to read than Prof. Dembski's book, No Free Lunch, for example.

In a review of another book, an Amazon reviewer wrote:

"Until [Intelligent Design theory] can explain not only everything that Darwinian evolution can't explain, but also everything that it *can* explain -- without resort to "someone, somewhere, somehow" -- and explain it with theories that can be *tested* -- disproven -- it is not science, and has no place alongside the theory of evolution, the theory of gravitation, the germ theory of disease, or the atomic theory of matter."

A statement like the above may appear in subsequent reviews of this book. Such a statement is demonstrable nonsense. If I can provide a solid argument that the earth is not flat, then the theory of the flat earth needs to be re-examined. I do not have to conclusively disprove the flat earth theory *and* also prove that the earth is round.

Similarly, Einstein's theories of relativity shook the world of physics. Einstein never published a book disproving all of Newton's laws. He offered an alternative hypothesis, and then it was up to open-minded scientists to examine the hypothesis on its merits. Only the chauvinists would insist that Einstein's theories were patently false because he had not proved Newton wrong first, and also proved his own theories 100% correct.

The above statement also suggests that an alternative theory must be "testable" or else it is not "science." That's false, too, unless the pro-evolution people will admit that Darwin's work amounted to reconstructing *historical* biological events, and that modern evolution theory attempts to explain what happened millions of years ago ... and that both of these are *not scientific* because they not "testable."

Scientists who insist that the challenger bears "the burden of proof" before his or her challenge to an existing theory is considered worthy of discussion, are scientists with a closed mind.

Thus it is with Dr. Wilder-Smith's book. Examine his arguments on their merits. I heartily recommend this book.

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Beautiful Book on Bali and Beautiful with lovely Photographs.......2001-06-04

This book is a very lovely book for sure with wonderful photographs as well as archive pictures on Bali. Even though the book briefly covers sections and aspects of Bali I still find it very amazing that the island hasn't been spoilt to such an extent therefore Bali's culture is still intact. The book shows both the modern and the ancient world living in harmony together which balances but never tipping the scales. Great photo shots of the temples, mountains and most of all it's people the Balinese... I found it very enjoyable to flip through the pages and reading the passages talking about Bali and how wonderful the island is. Yes for me Bali is a "Gift from the Gods" themselves.

Bali: Morning Of The World.......1999-11-26

Do you still think that Bali a utopia? Do you still feel that Bali is a magical place? Or you just not sure? Read this book! A book full of excellent and colorful pictures and words of the morning of the worlds. If you are the romantics, touched by the island nature, arts and spiritual atmosphere, you are certainly not alone. Whoever you are you'll find in this book the reason why more and more people attracted by this lovely island. Currently more than a million people a year visit this tiny island.

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Bali: The Morning of the World
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Bali-Morning in the World
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Bali: Morning of the World

Bali: Morning of the world
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Bali: Morning of the World.......2003-11-05

The great Indian statesman, Jawaharlal Nehru, first gave Bali the name, "morning of the world," in 1954. Nehru was deeply impressed by this singular community which had attained such high levels of art, culture, and spiritual development-yet lived at the simplest level-joyously and peacefully. Introductory text explains Balinese history, topography, society, and belief systems as a prelude to the captivating, full-page color photos of Bali's peasant class (sundras) living in close harmony with each other, the earth, and their gods. Sieben, a German-born artist and photographer, gives us an orgy of light and color: rice terraces, stone statuary, water palaces, temples, performances, cockfights, and thatched elephant grass roofs peaking out of the lush tropical greenery. In a vibrant riot of scenery, culture, and celebration of life, Sieben and Grant gift us with the essence of Bali as it has existed through unhurried centuries. Morning of the World Bali is a wonderful birds-eye view of Bali's physical beauty in the 1960s-of a land still conveniently forgotten by both time and the modern age.

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A Pathfinder in the Southwest: The Itinerary of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple During His Explorations for a Railway route from fort smith to los angeles in the Years 1853 &1854
Grant Foreman
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A pathfinder in the Southwest; the itinerary of Lieutenant A.W. Whipple during his explorations for a railway route from Fort Smith to Los Angeles in the years 1853-1854,
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A Pathfinder in the Southwest The Itinerary of Lieutenant A.W. Whipple During His Explorations For A Railway Route From Fort Sm
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A Pathfinder in the Southwest: The Itinerary of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple During His Explorations for a Railway Route from Fort Smith to Los Angeles in the Years 1853 & 1854

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Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists, and clinical scientists describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment. Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in growth monitoring. The use of anthropometry in assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness is also discussed. The book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics, orthopedics, and pediatrics.

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Anthropometry: The Individual and the Population. (book reviews): An article from: Human Biology
Noel Cameron
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Title: Anthropometry: The Individual and the Population. (book reviews)
Author: Noel Cameron
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Date: June 1, 1995
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This new primer offers a thorough understanding of the carbonyl group, knowledge essential for an understanding of organic chemistry. The Carbonyl groups appears in many classes of compounds, Core Carbonyl Chemistry covers the chemistry of these classes in a brisk style, and also embraces the reactivity of this group. Recent developments are dealt with where appropriate. The study of this material is a vital part of all university year and/or second year courses in chemistry or biochemistry, and this Primer will be useful to all students taking such courses.

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Core Carbonyl Chemistry
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A new direction of research has recently emerged at the boundary between elementary particle physics and atomic spectroscopy: the investigation of weak interactions by optical methods. These studies have led to the discovery of parity nonconservation in atomic transitions, which has served as one of the first decisive confirmations of the unified model of electroweak interactions. In this integrated picture of the subject the author considers the effects of space-inversion and time-reversal violation in atoms, molecules and condensed matter. He has produced a work for theoreticians and experimentalists alike, specialising in atomic, nuclear, and elementary particle physics.

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Parity Nonconservation in Atomic Phenomena
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Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy “A Parisian Affair” or the touchingly ironical “The Jewels”; between siblings, as in “At Sea”; and between former partners, as in “Encounter.” They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and generosity and also, as in “Boule de Suif,” its greed and hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassant's stories lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.

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Literary vandalism. Buy the Roger Colet translation instead........2006-08-25

Reading this new edition is like visiting a museum that has just been looted. Astonishingly, several of the very best Maupassant stories (particularly "Madame Tellier's Establishment" and "Mouche") have been deleted and replaced with facile selections like "The Necklace," which was intentionally omitted from the 1973 Roger Colet translation because it was rightly deemed inferior and unrepresentative of the author. Inexplicably, and criminally, translator Sian Miles chooses the first (again inferior and greatly truncated) version of "The Horla" rather than the classic mood-swinging, diary-entry style of the famous final published version. Additionally, "The Christening" here is benign and slight compared to the harrowing story of the same title featured in the earliest Penguin Classics collection translated by H.N.P. Sloman (a very different group of stories, but as highly recommended as the Colet). What Miles has done in essence is anaesthetize the great short story writer (perhaps second only to D.H. Lawrence) and give us Maupassant Lite.

Worst of all is the sense of biographical revisionism and political correctness that pervades this collection. In her Introduction, Ms. Miles claims that previous Maupassant collections reveal him as "if not misogynistic, at least deeply cynical in his portrayal of women," and she has taken it upon herself to "redress that previous imbalance." Hard to believe Penguin let her get away with such nonsense. First of all, Maupassant was cynical about humankind: both men AND women. If anything, he largely pokes fun at men's egos and their consequent foibles in dealing with women, who mostly come across as more subtle and intuitive. Secondly, Miles's reading of Maupassant as a misogynist fails to account for the great female Maupassant heroines like Mouche, Madame Tellier, Boule de Suif, Mother Sauvage, and of course the tragic Jeanne from the novel "A Woman's Life (Un Vie)." In truth, Maupassant's greatest characters defy the kind of easy, simplistic categorization that Miles celebrates in describing "the stupid and brutal count in 'A Woman's Confession' or the insufferably chauvinistic doctor in 'Madame Husson's Rose King.'" Comments like these reduce Maupassant to a kind of 19th century Dr. Phil.

The difference in translations is also important to note. Take for example the closing passage of "Idyll":

Note how flat, clumsy and almost too contemporary Miles's translation is:
"'That's enough. I feel much better now. It's put new life in me.'
He got up, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. As she replaced inside her dress the two living gourds of her bosom, she said, 'That was a great help, Monsieur. Thanks very much.'
Gratefully, he replied, 'My pleasure, Madame, I'll tell you. I've had no food for two days.'"

Now note how Colet carefully captures the flavor of the rustic dialogue. Also note the impact of his adding the paragraph break:
"'That's enough, I feel better now. That's put new life into me.'
He had stood up, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
Pushing her breasts inside her dress, she said: 'That was a real good turn you did me, Monsieur. Thank you very much.'
And he replied gratefully: 'It's me as has to thank you, Madame. I hadn't had a thing to eat for two days.'"

The difference between "That was a great help" vs "That was a real good turn" and "My pleasure" vs "It's me as had to thank you" speaks for itself. This sort of thing is make-or-break when determining a quality translation.

Finally, Miles's Introduction fails to capture the loving and haunting quality that Roger Colet's does. Among other things, Colet's Introduction revisits the serious possibility that Flaubert may have been Maupassant's real father. The subject of illegitimacy is an important one in Maupassant's work (see the wonderful "Pierre and Jean"), but this fascinating and ambiguous connection is not even touched upon here. It is one of numerous egregious omissions and revisions that make this publication tantamount to literary vandalism.

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A Parisian Affair And Other Stories
Guy de Maupassant
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJBD3K

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Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Guy De Maupassant
Manufacturer: Penguin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K755A8

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