The Evolution Conspiracy
By Lisa A. Shiel
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Lisa A Shiel brings us Volume 1 entitled Exposing Life’s Inexplicable Origins & the Cult of Darwin; there is no mention I saw of upcoming books to follow but the Vol. 1 on the cover is promising.
The Evolution debate is one I have discussed, argued and debated with both Evolutionists and Creationists. I find myself in a middle ground somewhere between them, vainly arguing that there is no argument; Creation (no matter how it happened) is an event, while Evolution is a process.
Creationists fervently believe in their specific form of Origin and devoutly hold to the idea that Evolution somehow negates it. They fight the concept with everything they have. Evolutionists insist they have proof, that Evolution is only called a theory because that is what science does, like the Theory of Gravity, which everyone knows is real.
Creationists ignore or negate the evidence of a long history of different animals and the strangeness of human beginnings while Evolutionists will not even consider some of their basics tenets may be wrong or simply off target.
So it was with some trepidation I said ‘Yes’ when my wife asked me if I would be interested in reading Ms Shiel’s book – too many of those with whom I have interacted on the subject are fervent nutters.
Lisa Shiel has produced a well thought out book of basic concepts. She has attacked the issue by making herself fully aware of the Evolution side of things, and step by step, sets about showing how the ‘proof’ is nothing like what the average person would consider solid.
Questions such as when and how first life came about are looked at, as well as the whole species question. Another area I have tried to debate with Evolutionists is their insistence that it is all about Species, because Species are an invented concept. Ms Shiel takes a look at the issue and the rest of the taxonomic question.
There are deep mysteries about the Evolution question, with Punctuated Equilibrium (PE) as an attempt to settle some of them. It is an area I feel might have been explored more thoroughly, as the causes of PE don’t seem to get a lot of air time.
I think some time might have been usefully spent showing readers how the two questions (the Event & the Process) have been manipulated to place at loggerheads two groups who might otherwise have found some common ground. Creation is rightfully opposed to the Big Bang idea rather than Evolution. Evolution would find a more appropriate opposition in ideas about just how all the animals came around and how they altered, arguing process against process.
In future books it might be interesting to investigate the work of biologists such as Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton for alternative possibilities for how a change process might have worked – there are more possibilities out there than ‘God did it’ or ’random chance mutations did it.’ I’m certainly hoping the follow up book will not be a basic Christian Tract on the bible version of Creation – for a writer of this calibre it would be a cop-out to take such a path.
I doubt Lisa Shiel is about to alter any of the diehard Evolutionists with this book – we humans too easily shrug off evidence that disagrees with our preset views – but she provides a rational look at questions people should be asking of Evolution.
I doubt also that making the case for questioning Evolution will provide anything concrete to show Creation as anything more credible than an interesting concept, but I think anyone who prides themselves on being open to evidence should take the time to read this book, The Evolution Conspiracy.
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