If Christians read "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne would they go to hell?

Amazon - Why Evolution Is True

Some of the 497 customer reviews:

A fucktard who obviously didn't read the book wrote this bullshit and a few other things: "Evolution is a FAKE science."

These reviews were written by people who have a brain:

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Mr Coyne does a brilliant job of addressing every aspect of evolutionary theory and details exactly why there should be no more doubt. As a former special creationist of 30+ years I found the book particularly informative and well written. Even when I had a strong suspicion that evolution was correct and most likely the best explanation of our current state I had a few hang ups and doubts, but after reading this incredible book I have learned that any hang ups I had about evolution and natural selection were either misinformed or just completely wrong. A lot of propaganda and mockery is perpetrated by special creationists and this book dispels it all, in my mind. I'm glad I read this book.

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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.

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There should not be a book called “why evolution is true” in the 21st century, just like there shouldn’t be a book named “why we know germs exist”, or “why we know the heart is pumping the blood”. Evolution is scientifically speaking; a long ago settled issue, and the evidence that it has happened and that it is continuously happening is undisputable. One of the reasons this book exist is because religious zealotry in the Muslim world and the United States has made the theory of evolution by natural selection highly controversial and as a result it is often dismissed amongst many in the public.

Creationists often claim that the there is no evidence for evolution, or that the evidence is equally well evidence for “creationism”. They can get away with these kinds of false claims because many people are unfamiliar with the evidence for evolution. This book “Why Evolution is True” outlines a long list of some very powerful evidence for evolution by natural selection. It also explains what evolution is and what modern evolutionary theory is more specifically; evolution, gradualism, speciation, common ancestry, natural selection, and it also discuss non-selective mechanisms of evolutionary change. In addition the book discusses various concepts within evolutionary theory, mutations, genetic drift, adaptive traits, speciation, modern findings, the history of evolutionary theory, as well as different variants and controversies within evolutionary theory. The book presents evidence for the various components of modern evolutionary theory in addition to just providing evidence for evolution.

One type of evidence for evolution (among many) comes from the fossil record. There are millions of fossils representing 250,000 different species (17 million to 4 billion species has lived on Earth). The fossil record shows that early life was simple with complex life appearing later, with the youngest fossils being most similar to living species. This is predicted by the theory of evolution but it is not predicted by the assumption of a creator. In the fossil record you can follow lineages; species of animals and plants changing into something different over time (including the so called transitional fossils). The book discusses apes/human lineages, wasps to ant lineages, fish to amphibians, reptiles to mammals, dinosaurs to birds, mammals to whales, lizard like reptiles to snakes, etc. The fossil record is also matched by the structure of DNA. All this is evidence for evolution but a problem for creationists. Other types of evidence discussed in the book include sub-optimality, vestiges, embryos, the structure of the DNA, and evidence from biogeography. The latter might be the most compelling and the most easily verified of all the evidence.