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Review title: A sloppy piece of work
Product review: Over half of "Reasons" is a promotion of the so-called "creation science", where MacDowell spews forth a number of arguments to try to discredit evolution. As a scientist, I was appalled to read this section, because he was so wrong on many points! MacDowell has used "evidence" which was completely discredited well before he wrote the book; he has used irrelevant points and misleading arguments; he has attempted to expose "serious problems" with evolution but failed even to acknowledge that there are even more serious problems with "creation science"; he has ridiculed evolution for past errors which have since been fixed yet failed to see that he's using creationists' errors that haven't been fixed. These are unacceptable in any book which claims to show the truth.MacDowell asks, in the book, why more scientists don't accept creationism. The miserable scholarship in this book is a sample of the real reason why. This, I'm sorry to say, is a book to be avoided.
