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A review by kevin_shepherd
Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks
5.0
"It is no longer possible to sustain scientifically the view that living things did not evolve from earlier forms or that the human species was not produced by the same evolutionary mechanisms that apply to the rest of the living world." ~National Academy of Sciences, 1998
Daniel J. Fairbanks is a distinguished research geneticist and university professor. He is also a self-professed devout christian. To read his rock-solid, no-nonsense presentation of evolution as an irrefutable fact of nature, solidly anchored in biological diversity, fossil evidence, zoological anatomy, and millions and millions of ancestral relics in human DNA, makes my heart sing. He reminds me that nut jobs like Phillip Johnson, cofounder of the intelligent design movement, haven't completely squelched rationality and critical thought in American theology. I am reminded, and Thor knows I NEED reminding now and then, that all is not yet lost.
"In order to defend God against the challenge from evolution, they [the creationists] have had to make Him into a schemer, a trickster, even a charlatan. Their version of God is one who intentionally plants misleading clues beneath our feet and in the heavens themselves. Their version of God is one who has filled the universe with so much bogus evidence that the tools of science can give us nothing more than a phony version of reality. In other words, their God has negated science by rigging the universe with fiction and deception. To embrace that God we must reject science and worship deception itself." ~Kenneth Miller, cellular biologist, Brown University
Daniel J. Fairbanks is a distinguished research geneticist and university professor. He is also a self-professed devout christian. To read his rock-solid, no-nonsense presentation of evolution as an irrefutable fact of nature, solidly anchored in biological diversity, fossil evidence, zoological anatomy, and millions and millions of ancestral relics in human DNA, makes my heart sing. He reminds me that nut jobs like Phillip Johnson, cofounder of the intelligent design movement, haven't completely squelched rationality and critical thought in American theology. I am reminded, and Thor knows I NEED reminding now and then, that all is not yet lost.
"In order to defend God against the challenge from evolution, they [the creationists] have had to make Him into a schemer, a trickster, even a charlatan. Their version of God is one who intentionally plants misleading clues beneath our feet and in the heavens themselves. Their version of God is one who has filled the universe with so much bogus evidence that the tools of science can give us nothing more than a phony version of reality. In other words, their God has negated science by rigging the universe with fiction and deception. To embrace that God we must reject science and worship deception itself." ~Kenneth Miller, cellular biologist, Brown University