Reviews for Geology by Design: Interpreting Rocks and the Catastrophic Record

The average rating for Geology by Design: Interpreting Rocks and the Catastrophic Record based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-06 00:00:00 Tamas Fodor "The Antichrist" begins with the writer's egotistical pledge to become immortal, & then he pretty much backs his shit up. Masterfully. He identifies his readership & reading Nietzsche is like joining a secret club that's more than a century old. Indeed, one feels like a pariah when trying to discern the 2000+ year old lie. So, after this, perhaps THE quintessential Anti-Christian argument, the question is--why do people STILL believe? I believe that they have all, as its the most obvious conclusion, not read this. Nietzsche argues the Church goes against all intelligence, human instincts, creativity (indeed philosophy and medicine too)... which is to say all of life. The portrait is vividly placed at the forefront of my mind: the Christian as a cadaversome simpleton... ready to be disposed of by the machinery of daily life, ready to be sucked dry by the vampiric imposters known as the clergy. How could God, in all his Perfection, become bored to create the known world? The self-elevating institution has lost all reality (we see this today... & it's no joke that the canonization of the ex pope comes at such crucial times...)...& common decency. It's "the worst crime against humanity." The killer of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance. This opened my eyes: this inciting piece of literature that's brilliant in its narrow prejudice, but not wholly incorrect. (2011)

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-21 00:00:00 Andrew James I first read this book when i was in high school back the the late 80's. I was not certain about my philosophical or theological viewpoints at the time, and I expected to be met with a well thought out argument against Christianity. This is not what I found. Instead, I found the rantings of an angry man who was clearly reacting against Christians and the Church (proper) and wrongly leveling his disgust against Christianity itself. His arguments were weak and ill-formed at best. Needless to say, I was disappointed that Nietzsche could not mount a better attack than he did. I had previously found similar weak arguments (based mostly on emotion) in the text "The Tyranny of God" by Joseph Lewis. Although I am a Christian today, I am reasonably certain that I could develop a stronger argument against Christianity than Nietzsche or Lewis (which I obviously will not do here). So, if you are a Christian looking for a worthy opponent, don't bother looking here. And if you are an atheist looking to strengthen your arguments, I hope you have a better source than Nietzsche.