- Any additional comments?
- This book has most of the components that makes a good Apocalypse story. However, there were two things that I did not like about it and kept coming up over the course of the second book (stopped listening mid-second-book).
1. I am a creationist. That being said, his debate scenarios between Evolution and Creationism were extremely week and outdated. No educated person would find his reasoning convincing. In this time of scientific advancement and overpowering evidence of evolution, people of faith must adapt and interpret our holy scripts differently. God created Adam, that does not mean that he was the first man that ever lived on the planed. In Quran (Holy book of Islam), God says, he created Adam and taught him the names of everything, that is interpreted as Language and basic crafts. He also said to his angels before the creation of Adam that he will place a steward on earth. That may imply that there were humans on the planet and that Adam is the beginning of the Civilized man. This does not contradict evolution. and I do not see the need for religion and science to clash over this and result in scientific minded people to leave their faith.
2. Being a Muslim, I still enjoyed this book with its Christian base. Talk about faith and going back to God is universal among faiths. But again, his research on Islam is non-existant and follows mainstream media that tries to make Islam look barbaric and bloody. Quraan (being from the same God) is full of prophecies, if that is what someone is looking for. Our prophet Mohammad never killed anyone for converting away from Islam, never had a 6 year old wife (or 9), and never allowed the practice of honor killings. These were all practices of corrupt Khlifs that followed after his death. Like Christianity, a lot of political monstrosities were made in the name of religion and gave it an unjustly image.
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