The Evolution of a Creationist: A Layman's Guide to the Conflict Between the Bible and Evolutionary Theory

by Jobe Martin

Book Overview

In his book The Evolution of a Creationist Dr. Jobe Martin chronicles his personal journey from traditional scientist to creationist. He was a traditional evolutionist but it was his medical and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964366509
• ISBN13: 9780964366503
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Exploration Films
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The greatest book to affirm that …. is real aside from the Bible!

My youth pastor had suggested this book to me and had me real a older edition of the book. I was astonished and shocked on just how much detail that was crammed into so far pages! If you are, or know anyone, struggling with these reality of …. just have them read this book.

Must read

This book is so good that it should be a must read for every school biology class. There is stuff in there that even the best scientist would not be able to disprove.

The folly of Darwin's interspecies evolution

Herman Rutner, retired industrial R & D scientist If you want the facts about the folly of Darwin's evolution of species, you need to read this book by former evolutionist, Dr Jobe Martin. It cites numerous examples of species with complex body organs that could not possibly have "evolved" instantly or even gradually over billions of years. This is known as "irreducible complexity" that would require a superintelligent designer, planner or programmer, not any proposed random statistical process with extremely low odds or compound probability of producing anything useful (computer geeks call this GIGO = garbage in = garbage out). Evolutionists have no idea of how interspecies evolution could have logically occurred and hide behind statements like: we are still learning, it occurred "by nature" (Mother Nature?), interspecies evolution is obvious due to similarities and appearances of species even if not NOW logically explainable, evolution must have occurred by the same process as Darwin's proven scientific theory of intraspecies evolution by environmental adaptation (however that is a slow process occurring over many generations and would not apply to complex organs that need all parts to evolve simultaneously to be functional), and separate species could not have been created by an omniscient God "in the beginning" or after the "Big Bang", since many as atheists deny He exists. And many evolutionists, even brilliant scientists, often lump and thus confuse both of Darwin's theories, one based on scientific experimental evidence and the other on philosophical speculations about the descent of man and species, hence truly "junk science". So evolutionists have no choice but to cling to their illogical "blind faith" arguments that are equally, indeed less "rational", than belief in Creation that is the only viable and logical alternative.

So when a scientis "believes" something to be true or false, is that on "fatih"?

The Pope knows that science can answer questions that before were unknown and therefore accepts scientific "facts". However, even scientists do not know where the material for the "big bang" came from, so they can only have a "theory". A "theory" is nothing more than a "believe". So scientists do have "faith".

Unpretentiously Intelligent Case for Nonevolutionary Creation; Lifts the Spirit, Persuades the Mind.

From it's first pages, "Evolution of a Creationist" hints of being a different sort of evolution/creation book: > "Any part of this book may be reproduced..." <br />> "If you have time to read this book today, but have not taken the time to read your Bible, then you do not have time to read this book!" <br />> "This book is dedicated to my Creator and Savior..." <br />This is a praise and adoration book! It's as if Jobe Martin's awe of his Creator is uncontainable, gushing over onto every page. In fact, the author "marvels," ending each chapter with a "Marvel of God's Creation," an examination of an animal whose uniqueness defies evolutionary explanations. (Fave: the incubator bird!) But beyond animal observations, there are arguments from facts of other areas of science, from logic, and from the personal testimony of a transformed man, Martin, who went from being an agnostic evolutionist to a theistic evolutionist to a creationist, something that started when 2 of his students at Baylor College of Dentistry had challenged his blind faith (yeah, faith) in evolution. It would be a mistake to confuse this book's humility and nontechnical accessibility for naivete. A pleasurable and convincing read, and if one reads thru to the evangelistic conclusion, it's potentially a life-changing one, too.

Direct and Convincing

I believed this book was one to definitely spark my interest. I was actually invited to a direct presentation at a college by this man, Dr. Jobe Martin, and he spent a good two hours on describing specific factions of evolutionist ideas and explaining how they do not take into account the facts and issues dealt with in the Bible, that everything a Creationist explains is certainly possible as well. I spoke to him after the slide presentation and his words were moving. He handed me the book himself and told me to read it, and it made sense in the end, that overall, the idea of Creationism is actually easier to believe and understand than all the ideas and theories of Evolutionism. If you would ever have a chance to talk to this amazing guy, or read some of his other works, please do! Dr. Jobe Martin is very well knowledgable and certainly did his homework on researching everything he needed to know to figure out what to write, and how to refute the 'evidence' in his book.