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The New York Times best seller by
the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy,
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"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."-Bill Nye
Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years of time; and explores the new search for alien life, including aliens right here on Earth.
With infectious enthusiasm, Bill Nye shows that evolution is much more than a rebuttal to creationism; it is an essential way to understand how nature works-and to change the world. It might also help you get a date on a Saturday night.
- Sales Rank: #14675 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.16" h x .97" w x 5.53" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
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“With his charming, breezy, narrative style, Bill empowers the reader to see the natural world as it is, not as some would wish it to be. He does it right. And, as I expected, he does it best.” ―Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D, host of COSMOS
“This gracefully written book provides a tour through not just the big ideas of evolution, but why evolution is such a captivating idea scientifically, philosophically, and emotionally. Written from the heart--but science always comes from the heart with Bill Nye.” ―Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D., author of Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
“Bill Nye has written a wonderfully clear, readable, and enjoyable explanation of what evolution is and is not. In his casual, humorous style, he...describes the gigantic mountain of evidence that demonstrates that evolution not only happened in the past, but is happening in real time.” ―Donald Prothero, Ph.D., author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
“Following right in his mentor Carl Sagan's footsteps, this call to action and awareness of the lingering ‘debate' over the reality of Evolution will further cement Bill Nye's place as our time's premier spokesman for science and reason.” ―Dr. Jim Bell, president of The Planetary Society and author of The Interstellar Age
“Bill Nye has penned one of the clearest and most moving explanations of that process since Darwin's On the Origin of Species. With clarity and passion, Nye brings evolutionary theory to life.” ―Michael Shermer, Ph.D., author of Why Darwin Matters and The Moral Arc
About the Author
Bill Nye is a scientist, engineer, comedian, and inventor. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University where he studied under Carl Sagan, and worked on the 747 as an engineer at Boeing before creating and hosting his much-loved Emmy award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy. He holds six Honorary Doctorate degrees from Lehigh University, Willamette University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Goucher College, and Johns Hopkins, and teaches at Cornell regularly as a visiting professor.
Corey S. Powell is the former editor in chief of American Scientist and Discover, where he is currently editor at large and continues to write the "Out There" column and blog. He is also a visiting scholar at NYU's SHERP science journalism program, as well as a freelance writer for Popular Science, Smithsonian, Nautilus, and Aeon; his article "The Madness of the Planets" appears in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and a small collection of Permian-era fossils. Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation is his first collaboration with Bill Nye, but he hopes it will not be his last.
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220 of 259 people found the following review helpful.
A Treat to Read
By Book Shark
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye
"Undeniable" is in outstanding book in defense of science and the grand theory of evolution. It's a love of science and his quest to spread awareness of the ways evolution impacts our lives and what is at stake for all of us. Mechanical engineer, science educator, and Emmy award-winning TV personality Bill Nye the Science Guy provides readers with a gem. This enjoyable 320-page book includes thirty-seven chapters that cover a wide-range of topics pertaining to evolution.
Positives:
1. Entertaining, well-written and well-researched book for the masses.
2. A great topic, the grand theory of evolution and how it shapes our lives.
3. A charming and engaging tone throughout.
4. This book oozes of love for science and the admiration for one of the greatest theories ever devised. "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. It describes all of life on Earth."
5. Bill Nye is an educator at heart and he is concerned for the well-being of our planet. This sentiment shines through clearly as the following statement illustrates when discussing the attack on reason. "This attack on reason is an attack on all of us. Children who accept this ludicrous perspective will find themselves opposed to progress. They will become society's burdens rather than its producers, a prospect that I find very troubling."
6. Debunks many lies portrayed by creationists, like the second law of thermodynamics. "The Second Law applies only to closed systems, like a cylinder in a car engine, and Earth is not even remotely a closed system. Transfers of matter and energy are constantly taking place. Life here is nothing like a perpetual motion machine, but neither is it like a ball rolling inexorably downhill."
7. Does a wonderful job of describing how evolution works. "Nature is self-organizing. That's another way of defining evolution: Nature builds ecosystems, in all of their complex glory, from the bottom up."
8. Keeps even the most complex topics accessible for the public. As an example provides an enlightening chapter on how to determine deep time. "It's just a little over a century since the French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, and with it the key to unlocking deep time."
9. A very good explanation on why the inheritance of acquired traits was wrong and what Lamarck actually got right. "Evolution happens as each generation of living things interacts with its environment and reproduces. Lamarck got at least that part of it right. Those natural designs that survive to reproduce pass on their genes. Those that don't successfully reproduce disappear; their genes disappear as well. It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs."
10. An interesting and even humorous look at sexual selection.
11. A look at artificial selection. "Darwin coined the phrase `artificial selection' to describe what human gardeners, farmers, and horse and dog breeders had been doing for centuries: creating better or more useful varieties of animals and plants."
12. Provocative but never disrespectful. "How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense."
13. A fascinating look at biodiversity. "The areas of Earth with the most energy input are also the areas with the most biodiversity."
14. Explains why most living things never get fossilized.
15. A look at mass extinctions. "Industrial emissions are one way humans are changing this planet, but not the only way. We are also directly killing countless species at a rate that dwarfs the rates estimated in the previous Big Five extinctions. We are killing them mostly by destroying their habitats."
16. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky's influence. "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution."
17. Many examples of poor "design". "Your windpipe (trachea) is right next to your food tube (esophagus), making it easy to choke. What's up with that? Couldn't that have been improved?"
18. Does a commendable job of explaining micro versus macro evolution. "The processes of microevolution and macroevolution are fundamentally the same, only the scale is different."
19. Many examples of the importance of understanding evolution. "For instance, we've discovered that cancer evolves. Cancer cells can mutate in the body of a patient, so that malignant cells find new ways to get a supply of blood and become resistant to our anticancer drugs."
20. An excellent chapter on genetically modified foods. It's one of my favorites. "So for me, evolutionary theory informs our decisions about GMOs."
21. A great chapter on skin colors. "In general, the closer people live to the equator, the more ultraviolet exposure they receive and the darker their average skin color."
22. Much more...
Negatives:
1. There are more substantive books on evolution (see my further recommendations) but few as charming and enjoyable to read.
2. A few sketches but overall lacking in visual content (graphs, timelines, and diagrams).
3. No notes.
4. No formal bibliography.
In summary, this is a wonderful book on the grand theory of evolution. Inspired by a debate with creationist Ken Ham, Bill Nye the Science Guy takes the reader on a delightful journey through popular topics concerning evolution and along the way teaches us the importance in understanding it. A tad on the accessible side of the equation but a wonderful book nonetheless. I highly recommend it!
Further recommendations: "Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction" by Eugenie C. Scott, "Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)" by Matt Young, "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins, "Evolving out of Eden: Christian Responses to Evolution" by Robert M. Price, "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin, "Understanding Evolution and Ourselves" by Dennis Littrell, "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry A. Coyne, "The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood" by David R. Montgomery, "What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)" by Ernst Mayr, "Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters" by Donald R. Prothero, and "The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution" by Sean B. Carroll.
324 of 387 people found the following review helpful.
Review from a former Jehovah's Witness
By Just Me
I was born into the Jehovah's Witness religion. I had twenty-nine brain washing indoctrinating years until one day I woke up and somehow saw "the matrix" for what it was and started thinking rationally while questioning the religions references and methods. I finally came to the realization that my religion was a cult. I am now thirty-four years old. In the short time that I have walked away from that "Faith", I decided to go to college and pursue degrees in things that always interested me. In a short sporadic 2.5 years, I attained an Associate's and Bachelor's degree while raising a family. This is a big no-no in that religion. Jehovah's Witnesses look down on education and even though they don't say you can't go to college, every time it is brought up it is in a bad light and described as a worldly place where bad association exists. College is for lovers of money and the greedy. Some go for two years for a technical degree which is almost shameful to other members.....if you go for four years...OH MY, you are never coming back!
Jehovah's Witness are taught to believe that EVERYTHING in the bible is to be taken literally. They even have their own book promoting Creationism titled, "Life--How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?" The liberties, lies, and misquotes the religion took when writing this book are mind baffling. Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Darwin and many more were grossly misinterpreted many times to make the organizations case for creationism look correct. All it takes is a quick google search to find the references to these atrocities.
In the time I have been out of organized religion, I have opened my mind and have been trying to seek answers that do not rely on faith but on concrete evidence. What I have learned in the last four years is astonishing. I now have a greater respect for my life, others, and all of my surroundings.
Bill Nye is an advocate for educating the young (and old), and we need more like him. Today's youth will eventually be making the big decisions that will affect the future of our planet. In my opinion, Mr. Nye's book is a great stepping stone to help others that might have been in similar shoes as me. It takes information that is sometimes hard to process and hones it enough that anyone "nine to ninety" can learn the basics of why creationism is laughable. Nye does it in a way that is heartfelt and nonjudgmental. I wanted to thank Mr. Nye for taking on this touchy subject and giving believers in creationism a healthy dose of SCIENCE!
Bill! Bill! Bill !
42 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
10 Years Out of Date and Somewhat Patronizing
By Perry Marshall
Pros: VERY easy to read. Written and perhaps a sixth grade level. Nye is friendly and likable. Hats off to his editor who did a great job.
Cons: Seems unable to resist taking repeated swipes at Ken Ham and Creationists, as though that's the only group of people in the world who take issue with various aspects of Darwinism. Makes misleading caricatures of evolution skeptics. Perhaps one shouldn't expect any different.
However the real problem with this is book is that Nye's version of evolution pretends as though the last 30 years of microbiology simply never happened at all. The version of evolution he espouses in this book has been obsolete for at least ten years.
He has a chapter about Lamarck in which he criticizes the 19th century scientist for being wrong about progeny inheriting acquired characteristics from their parents - but he only mentions epigenetics once and he never informs the reader that epigenetics has now vindicated Lamarck! (Look it up.)
Either 1) he doesn't know this, or 2) he belongs to the group of old-school Neo-Darwinists who are still holding out, hoping epigenetics will somehow go away. (Dawkins in his book disdains epigenetics, claiming that it's merely enjoying "15 minutes of fame.")
To Nye's credit, he does not advocate the now-dead Junk DNA theory. (On the other hand, neither does he point out that the Junk DNA theory has been overturned. No mention of the ENCODE project.)
He says evolutionary mutations come from "imperfect copying of the DNA strand." We now know this is false, and that evolutionary mutations are changes induced by the cell itself in response to signals from the environment.
There is no mention of the amazing error checking and error correction systems in cells. No mention of transposition (cells re-arranging their DNA) or symbiogenesis (cells inside of cells in cooperative partnership).
He has a chapter about how bacteria adapt to antibiotics - but no mention of horizontal gene transfer, and there's no real explanation of how this happens.
Which is to say he's given you virtually zero education about how evolutionary adaptations actually work. I'm surprised that a mechanical engineer would virtually ignore all the physical mechanisms of evolutionary change.
Meh. All in all a very surface level treatment of a topic that deserves better.
P.S.: The Origin of Life section is badly wanting. Refer to the customer review by DrHMD which covers this well.
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