Dinosaurs: Marvels of God's Design - The Science of the Biblical Account
I wasn't sure about
reading this book until I saw that Ken Ham had endorsed it and then I knew that
it would be what I wanted: a book that
is biased towards the literal account that God's Word gives of creation. The author of this book believes in a literal
six-day Creation and in a literal global flood, and thus studies the dinosaurs
with that viewpoint. I was especially
intrigued upon opening the first pages of the book to see 1 Timothy 6:20-21 and
2 Peter 3:5-6, two verses warning about those who turn away from what God's
Word says.
Dinosaurs Marvels of
God's Design by Dr. Tim Clarey is a very
fascinating book on Dinosaurs. Filled with many photographs of dinosaur
fossils, and many artist renditions of dinosaurs, it is interesting even to
little kids as I found when my little brothers all gathered around me while I
was reading this book this past week, asking about the dinosaurs and being
intrigued with the pictures. Where the Bible is silent on Dinosaurs, the author
is very speculative and admits that it he is speculative. That probably seems odd, but what I mean by
that is that, where the Bible does not expound upon certain things about
Dinosaurs, Clarey is careful not to be dogmatic on certain things, like whether
or not the dinosaurs were warm or cold blooded, whether or not Dinosaurs
carefully looked after their young…etc.
He speculates, but makes sure that you know that he is merely
speculating as he has not observed the live dinosaurs in action himself. For instance, in one spot he is giving some
speculative reasons as to why a certain dinosaur had a very thick skull,
concluding with, "God designed these
dinosaurs with an unusual thickened skull for possibly all these reasons,
and/or just to glorify Him by demonstrating tremendous diversity." But his speculation was very interesting, and
I must add that it is informed by certain observations that can be made by
observing fossils and things. But on all
topics, like how far back in time Dinosaurs existed he holds very firmly to
interpreting what science discovers of Dinosaurs by means of what God has said
about His creation in His Word.
I loved it when
giving the modern estimates of how old certain dinosaurs fossils are sometimes
he says things like "Secular Dated:
such and such millions of years ago" (I'm paraphrasing of course). Clarey uses a lot of repetition mainly when
he is refuting the views of unbiblical scientists, he'll repeat statements
about scientists have trouble with Marine fossils being mixed up with Dinosaurs
but that Creationists don't have a problem with it because they believe in a
global flood which is an excellent explanation as to how those creatures could
have gotten mixed together. The
repetitions like that are fine as they hammers these possible explanations into
one's head, biasing one still more towards bias towards the Bibles account of
the age of the earth, which I think is a good thing, and it is also good if you
are using the book as a reference book rather than just reading it straight
through.
All in all, I loved
the book because it was biased, and the author had presuppositions, Biblical
presuppositions.
The author is
unapologetically biased towards the account of Creation given by the Ultimate
Witness of Creation : God, the Creator
Himself.
In compliance with
FTC guidelines, I state that Master Books has provided me with a free review
copy of this book through Cross Focused Reviews (My review did not have to be
favorable). Lots of thanks to the
publisher and Cross Focused Reviews!
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