June 28, 2006
Godless by Ann Coulter
This was arguably Ann's best book. I marvel at the fervor over the Jersey girl comments because it was frankly right on target within the context of what Ann was trying to say. These women had built a political movement around their husband’s deaths which elevated them and was used to shield them from and objective analysis of their inane comments. Even more interesting is how little of the book was even about this subject. Any supposedly open minded individual who swore off reading this book based on the MSM characterization of those passages has fallen prey to the oldest ploy in the world, that is find the most outrageous comment in the text, mis-characterize it and pretend the rest of the book is more of the same. There is no doubt these women are enjoying their influence and notoriety, anyone who says different is a fool.
Now to what the other 99% of the book was about. Ann does a splendid take down of evolution. That is what makes this book interesting from my reading. In particular she points out evolutions touted reliance on "science" which she demonstrates to be the fraud that it is. Literally all of the “evidence” for evolution is either fraudulent or speculative at best. If anything, the fossil record suggests intelligent design, seeding visits from space aliens or some other unspecified stellar intervention which is considered an unthinkable conclusion. This conclusion refuting evolution through natural selection is supported by two basic suppositions.
First, microbiologic mechanisms so complex they cannot be developed through slight modification through natural selection. Even Darwin (who had no access to advanced cellular structure knowledge) posited in his theory that finding such mechanisms would invalidate his theory. How can evolutionists square a belief in Darwin with his own test that refutes his theory?
Second, a lack of evolutionary dead ends in the fossil record. If evolution through natural selection is true, where are the animals with partial but incomplete beneficial traits? If anything the existing fossil record suggests a very linier design to evolution. What is most damning is recent fraudulent attempts to fake it.
Still you have to feel a certain amount of sympathy for people who swear to the validity of a theory which (in their eyes) disproves the existence of god, even though people of faith consider it perfectly compatible with their religious beliefs.
Be sure and read this book. I had fallen way behind on this subject and it was a nice up to date refresher on the issue.
P.S. Beware if you are a public school teacher. That chapter will send you ballistic.
Posted by Sid at June 28, 2006 06:43 PM | Book Review
