Nathalie Ashraf từ Nižný Hrušov, Slovakia

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12/22/2024

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2019-04-01 00:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Rien Ono

I recommend The Age of the Earth to anyone with a strong general science background who is interested in radiometric dating methods and/or in debunking creationist arguments for a young earth. This book will be more valuable to me as a reference than it was as pleasure reading. The author presents an airtight case for the age of the Earth, ca. 4.55 billion years, citing several major lines of evidence, including Moon rocks and meteorites. His discussion is perhaps too technical for the average reader, but excellent for anyone who wishes to understand the radiometric assays in depth. I was fascinated by Dalrymple's historical accounts of previous attempts to measure the Earth's age, both scientific and religious. The central chapters—the "meat" of the evidence—drag on seriously, but I don't fault the author for this, as he clearly aims to present an ironclad argument. Some of the information is rather dated; for example, at the time of writing, geologists were still searching for the Chicxulub impact crater (the remnant of the meteor strike that may have caused the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous). I do wish he had explicitly addressed some of the creationist claims that radiometric dating isn't reliable, although from the care with which he describes how the assays are controlled for contamination and original isotopic composition, I expect that the relevant counterarguments are presented.

2019-04-01 02:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jeffrey Archer

Ok, what's going on here? I'm reading another YA (Young Adult) novel. I must be insane. Or, I like to torture myself with mediocrity. Or, I'm gonna write one of these bad boys myself when I get totally sick of the "Literature Lite" that the YA genre is, and I need to know the what and how of the genre in order to not do it like it's already been done (of course, then it'd never get published as YA. Or, what's probably more the case is it's my book and it'd never get published anyway because I suck). But really, the truth is I was just on another prison lit jag and I picked up Lockdown while I was at the library (yes, I go to the library, call me a socialist), and I didn't see the "YA" tag on the cover until I was home and it was too late. And then, after the first three pages I knew. Yup, I knew I was reading YA. How did I know this? Well, it's supposed to be about prison, but there's no balls to the plot or dialogue (although there was one "fuck you" which actually made me feel better and have a little more respect for the author, Walter Dean Myers). The tension, what little there was, was intermingled with the conflict, which was lost amongst the mediocre dialogue – and the characters are all one dimensional and predictable. So yeah kids, or Young Adults, or whatever label you prefer – go read Edward Bunker's No Beast So Fierce, if you want a more authentic story that isn't homogenized. Or even try Monster Kody's autobiography if you're looking for something as bit newer and perhaps more relevant to today.

Người đọc Nathalie Ashraf từ Nižný Hrušov, Slovakia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.