Christianity is brain damage. There is no cure unless the victims grow up, educate themselves, and face facts.

Christianity is brain damage and usually there is no cure. However there is one thing that can save a person from a lifetime of stupidity. It's called "evolution".

This is a customer review of the priceless book "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist. This person went from creationist retard to theistic evolutionist moron to normal person (aka atheist) thanks to studying evolution.

Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 stars

A book to start with if you are interested in evolution

By Michael Beverly on December 10, 2013

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Anyone that's read a few of my reviews knows that I'm a former Christian, now an atheist. I used to be a young earth creationist a long time ago, but authors like the Christian Hugh Ross changed my views on the age of the universe and over time I began to realize that evolution was true.

Now that didn't take away my faith as a Christian, I merely accepted that God used evolution to bring about the diverse life forms on earth.

These days I'm an atheist and have a huge fascination for science, evolution, and other things like nano tech and what the future of computers hold. I believe in reason and logic and find the world much more interesting when there isn't a super invisible man in the sky watching over everything, claiming praise for the good and blaming others for the bad.

Life is so much better these days.

So why read this book? It's a great read for someone interested in science but not a doctorate degree in evolutionary biology. I'm going to suggest my almost teen aged daughter read it after she reads the Dawkins book about reality that is written for a less tech audience.

I enjoyed this book a lot because the author explained the many proofs of evolution found in nature in basic language that was understandable to me as a non-scientist (no, it's not dumbed down either, I think he assumes most readers have a basic grasp of science).

There were some things in here I'd never heard of, and I've read a bit of Dawkins, so I was delighted to read about some new things, facts I'd not heard before. There is just so much evidence out there no one book can cover it all.

I highly recommend this to Christians and other evolution deniers as a good place to start, Coyne isn't as polarizing as Dawkins as he doesn't have the stage as one of those pesky new atheists, he just writes the book as a scientist.

He does point out flaws in creationist thinking, and I think he does a fair and honest job of it. I believe that young earth creationists have an agenda and they are completely unfair. I say this as a former yec, I used to believe all kinds of "proofs" against evolution, the problem was I was believing stuff that wasn't even espoused as being a theory in the first place, the straw men I knew were false is funny to me now, yeah, of course they were false, they weren't being taught by evolutionists in the first place.

I have to call it like I see it here, creationists are dishonest because they don't really study and know what the other side believes (or worse, they do and still teach the opposite).

I'd recommend this book to people starting to learn about evolution before I'd recommend The Selfish Gene and The Ancestors Tale, even though I highly recommend those (and reviewed them here as well).

The reason being is it's not quite as technical and it gives a strong over view, then more detailed reading would be easier to comprehend, I wish I'd read this in that order, but I do enjoy Dawkins a lot.

All that said, if you're a Christian and willing to stretch your mind and so forth, please read this book and I'd be happy to hear from you what you think.