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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

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From: Posted: Mar 24, 2009 Type: User Review Great book

Give this book to your favorite creationist. The eloquent writing explores the connection between the spiritual and the scientific in a powerful way.
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From: Posted: Jul 21, 2006 Type: User Review I wasn't intrigued..

Though I understand other reviewers' opinions of this book, and I agree that some of the book's ideas were interesting, The Lives of a Cell just didn't appeal to me. I have always loved science, but not in the way this book displayed it. I got...
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From: Posted: Sep 22, 2005 Type: User Review Beautiful prose coupled with ruminations on a broad array of biological themes

Thomas writes beautiful prose: his ruminations slide across the page and into your psyche. Be aware, though, that you need a little bit of biological background to keep them from sliding right out the other end. As a complete neophyte to biology...
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The Big Argument: Twenty-Four Scholars Explore How Science, Archaelogy,...
The Big Argument: Twenty-Four Scholars Explore How Science, Archaelogy, and Philosophy Have Proven the Existence of God

The Big Argument: Twenty-Four Scholars Explore How Science, Archaelogy, and Philosophy Have Proven the Existence of God

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From: Posted: Oct 26, 2008 Type: User Review Thought Provoking Evidence

I particularly liked the introductory story about Dr. Ben Carson's amazing answer to prayer in surgery. Dr. Carson is a world famous Pediatric Neurosurgeon at John Hopkins. In the story he tells how God intervened to save the life of one of his...
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From: Posted: Aug 04, 2009 Type: User Review A headache

My parents, who are devout Christians, bought this book for me for my birthday. I'm an atheist, and I'm well versed in the popular "new atheist" literature as well as being a bit of an armchair science nerd. I subscribe to Scientific American and...
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From: Posted: Apr 12, 2008 Type: User Review Covers a wide range of topics

This is a good introductory books that should lead to further investigation on all the topics treated, such as:
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

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From: Posted: Feb 11, 2009 Type: User Review Brilliant writing, occasionally infuriating

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I had long resisted reading Richard Dawkins, because of his reputation as a militant opponent of religion, New Age culture, and fuzzy thinking in...
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From: Posted: Mar 10, 2006 Type: User Review "Better To Keep Silent..."

Richard Dawkins is a world-class evolutionary biologist and one of the best popular science writers working today. His "The Blind Watchmaker" is, I think, the best layman's book on natural selection ever written; I re-read it every few years just...
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From: Posted: Oct 22, 2006 Type: User Review Impassioned atheism which goes overboard

I would like to see Richard Dawkins placed in a room with biblical creationists. I imagine there would soon be a fistfight.

In this series of articles Dawkins covers a range of themes, from his atheist beliefs to aspects of...
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Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion

Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion

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From: Posted: Sep 10, 2009 Type: User Review Careful and tested analysis of the cosmos and the lenses of science and theology.

This is a careful and tested analysis of the cosmos, the way science studies and learns about reality, and the questions that persist.

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From: Posted: May 18, 2009 Type: User Review heller and God

In old times we were told about universe and God by high priests of whatever was the current religion and expected to trust what they said as we were also told that we cannot comprehend these truths on our own. As it turned out quite a lot of...
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The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity
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The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity

The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity

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From: Posted: Jul 10, 2005 Type: User Review Sublime! The Space Age considered as a grand spiritual quest.

This is definitely one of the best books that I have read within years. I've read it a few times now and some passages - on the paintings of Chesley Bonestell (the Caspar David Friedrich of alien landscapes), which match the serenity and sublime...
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Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark

Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark

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From: Posted: Jan 07, 2009 Type: User Review The Ultimate Night Book

An absolutely delightful book for those of us whose favorite time of day begins when the sun sets. Christopher does an excellent job of blending the world of science, culture, anthropology, history, astronomy and more to give the reader the most...
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From: Posted: Jan 29, 2006 Type: User Review Not a favourite

Last night I "finished" Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the world after dark by Christopher Dewdney. I invoke the double quotation marks because I skimmed an awful lot of this book. That said, it did contain a great number of...
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From: Posted: Mar 28, 2005 Type: User Review Enjoyable but...

Ok, I did like this book. There were times, many times however, I wished it would drop the poetics and pick up the pace. There are many interesting FACTS in this book sprinkled through philosophy and poetics. Some of the potics just aren't that...
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The Best American Science Writing 2003 (Best American Science Writing)

The Best American Science Writing 2003 (Best American Science Writing)

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From: Posted: Jan 14, 2005 Type: User Review Great for browsing.

I have been on a bit of a binge reading science writing lately, and I really enjoyed this collection of essays. You can pick and choose the topics that most interest you--my favorite was the essay about crackpot amateurs who dedicate themselves...
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From: Posted: Sep 29, 2003 Type: User Review Okay, but you can do better.

To give you the viewpoint from which I'm coming from, I read Scientiic American, Discover, American Scientist, New Scientist and two journals of mathematics, and still enjoy reading a Springer Verlag book. I am a science junky, and so I am always...
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The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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From: Posted: Dec 22, 2008 Type: User Review History In It's Finest Review

The book progresses into modern Warfare as it shows the development of Canon through out the ages. . .Interesting to read the synopsis of where and why certain weapons were to be deployed, and ultimately redeveloped for modern battle tactics.Slow...
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It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science

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From: Posted: Aug 17, 2006 Type: User Review 'It Must Be Beautiful" is truly BEAUTIFUL

This book is written so that anyone with a general science background can understand the importance of the work and discoveries of these great minds. It demonstrates how their work has played a strategic roll in the historical events of our time...
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From: Posted: Mar 15, 2007 Type: User Review Good biography, mixed science


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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

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From: Posted: Jun 11, 2009 Type: User Review A Good (and long) Arugment

As a firm believer in the spirituality of man I still seek answers to the hard questions. I purchased this book as a small part of this quest. I was not disappointed. Michael Shermer - a former Church of Christ (same religion of my childhood)...
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From: Posted: Aug 29, 2009 Type: User Review Did I miss something?

I was hoping for a naturalistic answer to the question "If moral inclinations simply evolved, why is anyone OBLIGATED to obey them?". I didn't get my answer. People feel lots of inclinations (hunger, desire for sex, desire for acheivement,...
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From: Posted: Sep 25, 2008 Type: User Review "Goodness" is a Vector

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