Creation Revisited by P. W. Atkins (PDF)

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The author of The Creation returns to take a fresh look at the great questions of our existence and to tackle the unapproachable with a firm belief that an essential simplicity underlies the apparent complexity of all existence. “Essential reading for non-scientists who yearn to go where physics borders the ultimate.”–Washington Post Book World.

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⭐I discovered this author from his small book called “The Periodic Kingdom” and this book was recommended in a review on the dust jacket. This is also a small book, cleverly arranged so that the notes within the chapters are all on the left hand page opposite the paragraph the note is about that is on the right side. Beats having to look for asterisks or note numbers embedded in the text. The author shows, sometimes humorously, how evolution at the molecular level can lead to the things about which we shake our heads in wonder. I feel sure that I will reread this book several times.

⭐Buyer beware. The total pages of the book are 163 but the actual text of the book is written only on the odd numbered pages upto page #157, which makes it only a 79 page book. The left hand or the even numbered pages are either blank or short notes, some of which are just one-liners. Aside from this fact, the whole conversation is awful. All speculation and not a single proof of the author’s ramblings. I wonder why the paperback edition is so outrageously priced at $907.00?

⭐Excellent condition and delivered as advertised.

⭐Inspiring.

⭐Really incredible book. Near science poetry really. Full of awesome information on each left hand page to match points mentioned on the right hand page. Beautiful.

⭐Challenging and enlightening. Atkins does not disappoint. Excellent ‘food for thought’.

⭐WOW!This review is biased, because for about ten years, I’ve considered this the best book I’ve ever read. In fact, I bought two copies for my friends and gave mine away. I’m here to find a used copy of this elegant masterpiece.And that’s not because it told me any *facts* about biological or cosmic evolution that I didn’t already know, it’s because Creation Revisited brings all the disparate elements together to gives the reader “the big AHA!”.Adkins starts off with “I’m going to take your mind on a journey”. Well, he got THAT right.He presents a tree of reasoning, beginning with the leaves and proceding to the shocking root.The “leaves” are elephants. Adkins: “Our belief in elephants needs no explaination. We can see them lumbering across the plains”.But where did the elephants we observe come from? Adkins is (putatively) willing to believe that God made them. BUT… God didn’t need to make ALL the living elephants. He only had to make the parents of the ones we see.He goes on to suppose that God is a “lazy” God, who only bothers to create things which can’t arise naturally (like the elephants we seehaving come from their parents). He takes this back to the first mammals, to life per se, and to the big bang.It turns out that God really didn’t have to do ANYTHING AT ALL, and even HE can be eliminated. The “root” of the tree is exactly: nothing. Zero.The final chapter, after that revelation, is about the mathematics of clouds of theoretical points. It alone is worth getting the book for.=======Since my writing pales in comparison to Dr. Adkins’, I’m afraid that this simplistic summary of his book will induce you NOT to buy it.Buy it.Buy it and buy copies for any of your friends who want to understand what’s REALLY going on.

⭐If you have ever found yourself in a debate on whether mathematics is a discovered part of the universe or whether it is a human invention – Then this book is for you!This book runs along a similar vein as books by Steven Hawking and Brian Greene, but where Hawking and Greene approach the world through scientific fact, this book combines facts and logic to form a “philosophy of science.”This book is one of the most powerful pieces of logic I’ve ever read. Don’t let the title fool you. It IS about creation- just not necessarily by a deity.I can’t say enough good about this book! I absolutely loved it!

⭐Very strange book, I’m not sure what it’s purpose is. It’s not detailed enough for a science book and it’s to incomprehensible to convert non-science interested religious people to atheism. The author tries to prove the universe came from nothing using set theory! St. Paul tried to prove the existence of God citing nature as evidence. St. Paul had the better argument, but neither is convincing.

⭐A great review – a must read for those who want to understand more about the big bang and how the universe created itself from nothing

⭐Wie in seinen früheren Büchern versucht Atkins, die Creatio ex nihilo naturwissenschaftlich plausibel zu machen. Trotz der gut beschriebenen Entwicklungsgeschichte ist er aus meiner Sicht mit dem Anfang erneut gescheitert – was ja nicht verwundert.

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