** Review Edited after some review comments pointed out unclear parts, as well as my having read the book through again. **
I'm am a deep thinker, and I don't accept something simply because a teacher, professor, or someone else with a degree tells me it is so. I grew up in church, knew the Christian side of things, and chose to reject that faith as a young adult. Now I have lived both sides of the fence and since returned to the faith, albeit with a far different perspective.
That being said, I found this book intriguing. Some reviewers say that this book has terribly flawed reasoning. Au contraire. To my chagrin, I found the logic within to be rather solid. After reading this book, I played devil's advocate with some of my friends, taking the author's side for the moment, trying to get feedback from my peers. We were all pretty vicious about it, because I didn't like this book's arguments any more than they did. As an academic and all-around deep thinker with a knack for arguing, I'm pretty skilled at supporting whatever it is I wish to support. But while using his basis for logic and reasoning, my friends could not maintain a logically consistent rebuttal to any of the points made. They could make rebuttals, but there was always one frustratingly persistent flaw or inconsistency in the rebuttals we came up with.
Every belief system is built upon something that we trust is true, even without proof: an axiom, a foundation of sorts. Both sides of the debate have their own respective axioms, this cannot be denied. The only way we could rebut any of the arguments was if we moved his arguments away from his foundational belief (axiom), at which point we could easily strike them down, just like others attempt to do in their reviews here. But when we moved his arguments away from his foundation, we essentially set up a straw man, rather than fighting his real argument as-is. We simply had a semblance of his real argument, divorced from his foundation, which was then silly and easy to refute. But defeating a straw man is really no victory at all, and we weren't satisfied. Some people are happy to beat up a straw man and think they have victory, but I'm not that vain. I'm not happy unless the victory is real.
When it comes down to it, I could not escape the fact that his logical arguments (when built upon his axiom) are sound and annoyingly hard to overcome. Divorce it from his foundation, and the logic is truly flawed and easy to knock over, just like other reviewers have done here (in fact, the author even tells us that this would be the case); but if you divorce it from his foundation, then you're not really challenging his real argument anymore, just your own modified version of his argument (aka: a straw man).
I have since returned to the faith and started challenging others one-on-one to refute the arguments in this book, still looking for a solid refutation. I say one-on-one, because I want to make sure they leave his arguments intact rather than modifying them for ease just like I tried to do (and like reviewers here are doing). All the way up to doctorate students that I've sparred with, no one else has been able to remain consistent in their logic, and one frustrated biology student finally resorted to telling me that even the laws of logic change. Hmmm.
I do not fully support/like the ministry behind it or the author for that matter. But I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. So like I said, I at least found this book intriguing.
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Best of the best- rejoices all but those who choose to value irrational worldviews over truth!
A favorite still, after multiple repeat readings (required to really absorb to the point of reader readiness obviously intended)!This work rejoices the believing heart to know that, as it is written (Romans 1.19), God has indeed shown (what may be known of Him) to us.Enables those whose worldview doesn't hold water to understand exactly why, and coaches methodology whereby the skilled reader can lead others to self-identify their own point(s) of irrationality by "internal audit."Written with stunning clarity; all efforts to discredit Dr. Lisle's waterproof logic invariably reveal failure to absorb what he has so carefully written.Also in best of the best class: Dr. Lisle's "Taking Back Astronomy," a 128 page coffee table quality hardback.
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