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The book starts off interestingly with a discussion of how the universe appears to be "fine-tuned" for the development and existence of life as we on Earth know it. This concept is often labelled the Anthropic Principle, and the fine-tuning actually does exist. Ross uses this fine-tuning to make a case for a creator God, and that is certainly a possibility. However, Ross far overstates the case for fine tuning and then begins to insist that all of modern physics is represented specificaly in passages in the Bible. In some cases, his attempts to shoehorn the laws of physics into biblical passages are just simply ludicrous when you read the actual passages. Ross then goes on to throw out the standard lie about evolution being "undirected," although he at least has the sense to avoid calling it random as so many creationists do. He also engages in the usual misleading langauge, as when he suggests that the Cambrian explosion of lifeforms occurred in a "geological instant," when that "instant" is known to be millions of years. Up until that point I was giving him credit for being relatively balanced in his presentation. After that the balance was gone, and he ends the book in full evangelical mode.

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