David P. Thayer

Universally demeaning to all faiths

Revisado: 07-06-19

Terrible book that tears holes in every faith tradition in existence. Theologically unsound from the standpoint of Christians, Muslins , and Jews. I have no idea what Harry Turyledove was trying to accomplish with this book but this is definitely a miss.

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Terrible book my seven year old son hated it

Revisado: 03-02-19

I bought this to enjoy with my seven year old son at night before we went to bed. The writing in this book is terrible. no sense of dialogue or flow. It was so terrible that my son started laughing and mocking the book. I finally just turned it off. A great disappointment.

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I was shocked. Not a story for Children

Revisado: 05-31-18

I found the story mediocre and rather bland until suddenly the three heroes of the story ingested psychedelic mushrooms to avail themselves of the power to read the mind of another animal that they encountered. I definitely do not want my six year old son exposed to a glorification of dangerous drug usage to resolve problems. I feel this book should be removed from circulation. If I could give it a zero I would. I will definitely not be listening to this book on our upcoming road trip. There used to be a button to allow you to return a book but It seems to not be available anymore. If I could I would definitely return this book. Thank God, I decided to preview this book before listening to it with my six year old son.

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Pleasant but Shallow

Revisado: 09-25-06

As a Christian and a long time observer of Science I found this book disappointing. The author glossed over many of the difficult problems with evolutionary theory as it exists today; he cites the Urey Miller experiment as a credible attempt to explore the origins of life when it is now known that, that experiment was flawed postulating a Hydrogen Ammonia based atmosphere when it is now known the atmosphere was a N2 CO2 atmnosphere. Other discussions of Evolution indicate that his knowledge of the subject is out of date and rather simplistic. He states that 'No Biological Scientist Today doubts the truth of the Theory of Evolution' when in fact there are many Scientists who if not doubters are at the very least extremely agnostic aboiut evolution as any search of the Internet would show.

His Christian Apologetics are for the most part a rehash of C. S. Lewis and the discerning reader would be better served by reading the two volumes of Christian Apologetics by Lewis; 'Mere Christianity' and 'Miracles'. The authors review of the theory of Intelligent Design stops at Mr Paley in the mid 1800's and ignores significant work in this field over the last 30 years. His theology also is weak and his knowledge of the Islam, Hindu, and Buddhist religions shows it is doubtful if he has even read the Koran or the Bhagavad Gita. All in all while the author is no doubt a strong Christian and is extremely knowledgeable about his chosen field he seems woefully out of his depth as soon as he leaves his specialized field of knowledge. In my opinion the author has wasted an incredible opportunity to dig into the true issues that exist between Science and Religion today. I believe Science and Religion are compatible and any perceived difficulty between the two is a failure of interpretation on either the side of the Religionists or the Scientists. This book does little new to bridge that gap. I give him a 'C' for effort.

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