Title: all about the straw man
Product review: I can't believe people are saying "this is the best book I've read all year!" I hate to think what else they must be reading. This book is simply a rehashing of everything Josh McDowell has been saying for the last 30 years, placed in the context of a "fictional" tale that reads like a bad morality play. In fact, having read too much McDowell and Norm Geisler, I could pretty much predict the plot (hmm. . .right about now we ought to get to the trilemma (page turn) yep! There it is!) The conversations are stilted and forced, setting up all sorts of straw men in order to knock them over. For the Christian, it gives you a great "I knew I was right!" If I was a true skeptic with half a brain, I would recognize logical fallacy after logical fallacy and find nothing to convince me.So it's nice, trite tale. Not the worst book ever written, but certainly nothing deserving the sales and discussion it is receiving.
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