"In this engaging book, Axe uses 'common science' to consider the biggest mystery: To what or to whom do we owe our existence?" (Dean Koontz).A World Magazine Best Book of the YearThroughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering b...

Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two dozen highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America, this volume contests this proposal, documenting evidential, logical, and theological problems with t...

Evidence for a purely Darwinian account of human origins is supposed to be overwhelming. But is it? In this provocative book, three scientists challenge the claim that undirected natural selection is capable of building a human being, critically assess fossil and genetic evidence that human beings share a common ancestor with apes, and debunk recent claims that the human race could not have started from an original couple.

For the first time in history, the world shut itself down—by choice—all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn’t well understood. The government, with the support of most Americans, ordered the closure of tens of thousands of small businesses—many never to return. Almost every school and college in the country sent its students home to finish the school year in front of a computer. Churches canceled worship services. “Social distancing” went from a non-word to a moral obligation overnigh...

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?The human cost of the emergency response to COVID-19 has far outweighed the benefits. That’s the sobering verdict of a trio of scholars—a biologist, a statistician, and a philosopher— in this comprehensive assessment of the worst panic-induced disaster in history.As the media fanned the flames of panic, government officials and a new elite of scientific experts ignored the established protocols for mitigating a dangerous disease....

Theo's life was dull enough to bore a filing cabinet. Until he touched a humming bronze box in the museum basement and woke up in the Viking Age.Now he's dodging axes, pretending he knows how to use a shield, and trying not to fall for a woman who thinks sling-stones are a love language. The village he stumbles into is fighting for survival against Hrokk — a warlord in wolfskin who leaves black stones and broken fences wherever he prowls.To live, Theo must learn to stand sh...

"O custo humano à resposta emergencial à Covid-19 superou em muito o seu benefício". Este é o veredito final do trio de estudiosos — um biólogo, um estatístico e um filósofo — quanto a uma avaliação aprofundada acerca de um dos piores desastres induzido pelo pânico na história.Enquanto a mídia alimentava as chamas do pânico, autoridades governamentais e uma nova elite científica de especialistas ignoravam os protocolos estabelecidos para a mitigação de uma perigosa doença. Eles par...

Samuel Rutherford Crockett who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsPatsy (1912)Red Cap Tales (1904)The Black Douglas (1899)Joan of the Sword Hand (1900)Bog-Myrtle and Peat (1896)Red Axe (1898)The White Plumes of Navarre (1906)The Firebrand (1901)The Dew of Their Youth (1910)The Men of the Moss-Hags (1895)The Li...