Eric A. Cedrone

An argument for agnostic or deist views

Revisado: 07-05-21

True to the title, the book does little to argue for an existence of a god, just that science can't fully disprove it. While the author feels that he is opposing atheists, I know few atheists who don't also feel agnostic or deistic, but use the term atheist when it comes to the idea of knowing a personal god that will deal judgement based on actions, level of worship, sacrifice, and abstaining from thought crimes.
He mentions the anthropic principle and discusses how atheists assert authority on things they cannot know but then assumes things such as observed laws needing a lawgiver.
The author has or uses very little understanding of evolution. He points out peacock tails and acts of altruism and asserts that no one has any good theories on why these things exist. He also attempts to compare one field of science with another with a short list of quantum mechanics vs evolution. He makes the point that evolution shouldn't be trusted because it is not mathematical and because it has an inability to predict species thousands of years into the future. Biologists can't fully predict what will happen in a petri dish in 12 hours, this doesn't disqualify biology as a science or diminish it. Evolution has made many predictions such as age of the earth later verified by forms of dating, depths of various excavated lifeforms, the existence of transitional fossils, predicted resistance in infectious diseases to treatments, insects resistance to pesticides and changes with GM crops, and changes to insects like the peppered moth where it was expected that the light colored genes would emerge dominant after pollution is cleaned.
His observations on human differences from that of the animal world lacks the clarity and research like that of Jared Diamond who show that most hallmarks of humanity have animal origins or at least convergence.
All in all, this book gives more compelling arguments than do most religious arguments, but the conclusion is more of an agnostic or deist one, one that is already shared by a majority of those that identify as an atheist.

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Weak, unoriginal, and drawn out

Revisado: 01-30-21

What a waste of time this one is. It's a fictional story sprinkled with unoriginal tidbits of wisdom. Even when you turn up the speed, this behemoth is still 6hrs plus. Long, drawn out, and useless descriptions fill this book. While listening for pieces of wisdom you can learn about "two fat doves the size of a trucker's fist" hopping along a stone path. That's just one example of this authors awful writing.
He reminds me of a kid using random, irrelevant descriptions as filler to extend a school essay to reach a minimum length.
Don't waste your time reading this book when it's lesson in it's entirety is already on the cover.

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A 6hr 48 min ad for Tim Grover's training services

Revisado: 05-17-19

A sales pitch for a high end training program. I figured the sales pitch would end but it doesn't. There's a fee nuggets of wisdom in it but after reading James Clear, David Goggins, and others, this book comes off as unoriginal and a never ending sales pitch.

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