joshua yates

Great!

Reviewed: 06-11-19

Loved this book. laid out very simply, with easy to follow illustrations and examples. Really helped to clarify the issues of today that are so prevalent and damaging to truth and reality. Science has long overstepped it's authority, and this book exposes that bullying of Scientism as the self-defeating ideology it really is.

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changed my life.

Reviewed: 06-01-18

this is the most inspired book ive ever read outside the bible itself, and next to it, the most important.

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just what i needed...

Reviewed: 01-07-18

I took this exact same approach for my journey. im finally finding the people representing a philosophical type mindset towards the search for meaning. i am a preachers son who grew up hearing so many weak answers from complacent christians. i eventually decided i would either have to search on my own to know, or rely on what i was being told was known, which always seemed to change, yet always claimed to be the correct interpretation. As a thinker, and a searcher over the last 5 years or so, i went through all 4 of the exact same stages discussed at the end of this book. In fact, just 2 nights ago it was made very clear to me that i had found truth, and it was God, and finally...no more question. Amazingly, i still tried finding ways to put off my full repentance, holding on to my sin just a bit longer. i started turning on my heels. scripture began warning me, and i tried avoiding it, picking a different audiobook. i picked this one because i knew the truth i had found for what it was, and it seemed like good prep material since i knew i would (soon) be living a life as a servant for christ...as soon as i was ready...instead this book helped me reach that last step in my conviction, reject my reasoning for putting God on hold, quickly spin back around, and fall on my knees...praying he would still be there after i turned my back on him face to face. It was the hound of heaven part that did it, and right there at the very end. i am also a Yates, and found W.B. Yeats poem hound of heaven just a couple months ago. i was starting a song about it chasing me down, and had asked God if he was going to use me to his glory in some way, to please let it be music if at all possible. i had already started to plug my ears to him again, just like wretched man. this book was supposed to be my distraction, but kept speaking to me directly throughout, until that final "coincidence" caught me off guard and gut punched me. So thank you. i hope i meet more and more that went searching only to realize they were found.

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good science, bad philosophy.

Reviewed: 07-08-17

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

personally, i did not see this as time well spent. Even though there were plenty of reasonable theories, and interesting possibilities, that is exactly what they are...possibilities. i thought it would be more philosophically based from rhe audio sample. I don't like to read more ways in which natural selection can be explained, and don't need an explanation to understand the process, i think it could be possible already so all the speculation bores me in a way. it is already answered by saying we can never know, whether believing in a "God" or a natural explanation, nobody was there, so origins is not a realm for science. it cannot be observed regardless of how much you learn from reverse engineering, likewise there is no way to discover concrete proof that God exist, so this book doesn't do anything for me. even with all the possibilities lining up, the possibility of ID or not doesn't change. This book has nothing to convince me of except something someone thinks is very possibly possible.

Would you ever listen to anything by Daniel C. Dennett again?

sure, i guess so.

What about Tom Perkins’s performance did you like?

yes he did fine narrating.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

nope.

Any additional comments?

This is good evidence to show how scientist do not think well philosophically. The author started off sounding very open minded, and although he did lead into it very softly, it became clear pretty quickly what side he was one. He tries showing his good reasoning leading to the final path he's following, but you can find good reasons for any side of anything that make perfect sense, thats why it has no place in philosophy, but scientist never have quite been able to grasp that for some reason. In short, he may think he is being open and reasonable, but it is mind blowing that someone cannot become neutral for long enough to look book at what they are stating and see the pages and pages of things that are pure speculation on the way things came to be. using widely accepted science of unknowns to build your new found explanation of another unknown.

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