In my opinion this book is better than more recent "Understanding Intelligent Design" by Dembski and McDowell. Their book is intended for teens, and thus not quite "Everything you need to know in plain language".
Even though their book was alright, this one covers more ground and gives more perspective into WHY common sense ideas (as if you needed Paley to see design in the world?) are suppressed by anti-human, anti-family, anti-unborn, anti-elderly, and generally anti-weak ideologies of the sort like Darwinism.
Politics, bluffing, and discipleship making to prove they are worthy of awe - this is what Darwinists do. Do you worship your personal Darwinist mentor? If not, why not?
I happened to see some pretty funny video on YouTube were all sort of people celebrated Charlie's 200 birthday. Charlie was great story-teller, sensei, guru, and outright genius. No wonder there were no match among mortals to marry him, so that he needed to marry his cousin.
Following is not from the book, but interesting:
"The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick," ~ Charlie the Story-teller.
"As barbarians do not regard the opinion of their women, wives are commonly treated like slaves. Most savages are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of strangers, or even delight in witnessing them. It is well known that the women and children of the North-American Indians aided in torturing their enemies. Some savages take a horrid pleasure in cruelty to animals, and humanity is an unknown virtue..... Many instances could be given of the noble fidelity of savages towards each other, but not to strangers; common experience justifies the maxim of the Spaniard, "Never, never trust an Indian." ~ Charlie the Story-teller.
"We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." ~ Charlie the Story-teller Darwin opposing creationists' eugenics.
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" ~ story-teller Theodosius Dobzhansky
sure, how can one see gills in human embryo if not through the "Light"?
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