Why Evolution Is True,   ISBN:9780670020539

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Evolution is true because we exist. You only perceive it as not true because we have the ability to act irrationally fallaciously.

Be more meaningful. This book might be a good start!

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This book has almost all of the features I like to see in a Kindle edition:
1. Linked table of contents
2. Ability to skip to the next or previous chapter using the 5-way
3. Links from text to notes and from notes to text

What it lacks is a usable index. The index is there, but it's just a list of terms and names--no links or location numbers.

I know that e-reading is in its infancy, but Kindle users have got to start demanding better features! Publishers treat electronic editions as an afterthought and that's not acceptable. The more Kindle users the better, and the more Kindle users directly contacting the publishers and making it clear what we expect, the faster we will see e-reading reach its potential.

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I have been impressed listening to Jerry over the years on various Canadian radio and television talk shows. I would not have missed this book for the world - he did not disappoint. His book simplifies an important and complex subject. He shows the beauty of the world in which we are so insgnificant but so fortunate to be a minute part of the survivors. Should be on everyones must read list.

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I've often heard many scientists who support evolution state that evolution is a fact and do so emphatically. I decided to find out why they felt so strongly about their position. Jerry Coyne's book is an excellent one. The title of the book "Why Evolution is True" caught my attention. So here is a book written by someone who specializes in evolutionary genetics and the origin of new species. He should be able to tell me why evolution is true. I think Coyne made a strong case for evolution.

One good example is the study cited which involved the radiometric dating of corals living during the Devonian period. This dating corresponded nicely with the tidal ring dating on the corals which indicated the length of a typical day back then - twenty two hours, pretty much what it should have been 380 million years ago. Note: the friction produced by the tides gradually slows the earth's rotation over time so days actually were shorter millions of years ago.

One example I found more difficult to comprehend was the one about the 1000 olfactory receptors that mice have. Supposedly, these derived from one receptor that duplicated itself, the receptors then differentiated to lock on to different odors, and then the brain had to rewire to interpret the date from these differentiated receptors. I think we need a bit more science here to understand what exactly happened.

The book is loaded with many examples to demonstrate the validity of the theory. He also discuses a variety of topics including genetic drift, natural selection, sexual selection, examples of the evolutionary process, and origin of species.

Overall I found this book very interesting. So if you want to learn more about the case for evolution, I recommend reading this book.

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The only thing I learned about Creationism at school was when the teacher showed us an overhead picture of a huge tree, a snake and Adam and Eve without clothes. He didn't say anything just showed us it for a few seconds kind of embaressed of the past. Today I wonder who wrote the first DNA book that is coding for the make up of the cell in the first cell in the ocean. I just cant believe cells can come about in mud, water and lightning. Now scientists raise the question wether the universe came from another dimension or not (the string theory). It is also possible to believe that God created the first cell and Adam and Eve and evolution did the rest.

It is probably easier to grow up in a Muslim country believing in Creationism as written in the book of Genesis. Evolutionists tend to exclude God like som kind of fundamentalists.