--- product_id: 9761960 title: "The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People Are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution" brand: "lee spetner" price: "€ 31.06" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/9761960-the-evolution-revolution-why-thinking-people-are-rethinking-the-theory store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People Are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution **Brand:** lee spetner **Price:** € 31.06 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People Are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution by lee spetner - **How much does it cost?** € 31.06 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/9761960-the-evolution-revolution-why-thinking-people-are-rethinking-the-theory) ## Best For - lee spetner enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted lee spetner brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People Are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61BQWfTzwsL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Physicist Lee Spetner Shows Why Convergence Challenges Neo-Darwinian Evolution *by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014* Many people might have read, or at least heard of, Spetner's well-argued 1996 book, Not By Chance. Now Spetner (who holds a PhD in physics from MIT), has published this sequel titled The Evolution Revolution: Why Thinking People Are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution (Judaica Press, 2014). The book provides some wonderful arguments that challenge common descent and neo-Darwinian explanations of evolution.Spetner goes through many examples of non-random evolutionary changes that cannot be explained in a Darwinian framework. He covers some of the natural genetic engineering mechanisms reported by James Shapiro, which can modify an organism’s genome during a period of stress. Of course the big criticism of Shapiro's arguments is that he never explains how those "natural genetic engineering" mechanisms arose. Whatever the case, these abilities appear to be built-in mechanisms designed to allow an organism to adapt to a changing environment. Spetner comments:"An organism thus has the built-in ability to adapt to a new environment heritably by altering its DNA. These adaptations occur just when they are needed, because they are triggered by an input from the new environment. Since they are triggered by the environment, their occurrence in a population s not rare. They will occur in a large fraction of the population, leading to rapid evolutionary changes -- possibly even in one generation! If such adaptive changes had to be achieved by random DNA copying errors (point mutations), they would require long expanses of time, if they could be achieved at all." (p. 49)Spetner thus proposes what he calls the “Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis” (NREH) where changes in populations occur due to nonrandom processes, as if they are preprogrammed to evolve in certain ways.One of the best examples he gives for his NREH is the prevalence of "convergent evolution" in biology. He argues that convergent evolution undermines the theory of common descent, and really doesn't explain anything:"If comparing all possible biological features yields the same tree, then the tree could have some objective reality. Richard Dawkins (2009, pp. 321 ff.) offered what he calls “powerful evidence” for Common Descent based on the (presumed) existence of a phylogenetic tree. … An argument for Common Descent would be helped if anatomical data and molecular data would always lead to the same tree. However, the fact is they don’t. Phylogenetic trees based on different genes are known to give contradictory results. There was hope that the use of whole genomes, or at least large portions of genomes, for phylogenetic studies would resolve those contradictions, but that only made the problem worse.The lack of uniqueness of the phylogenetic tree is usually explained away by what is called “convergent evolution.” Convergent evolution is the appearance of the same trait or character in independent lineages. It is, however, an invention. It was invented solely to avoid addressing the failure of phylogenetic trees to support Common Descent. There is no theoretical support for convergence, and whatever evidence has been given for it is the product of a circular argument. Richard Dawkins (2010) seems to revel in describing numerous examples of convergent evolution without realizing that any of those examples destroy his case for evolution. ... Convergent evolution is the Darwinists’ lollapalooza. They made it up to keep their phylogenetic tree from falling apart, but they can’t say how convergence happens. As Joseph Keating (2002) wrote in another context, it is no more than a “pseudo-explanation, and may deceive us into believing we have explained some aspect of biology when in fact we have only labeled our ignorance.” (pp. 87-89, 92; internal citations removed)Spetner goes on to list nearly six pages worth of striking examples of convergent evolution. You’ll have to pick up the book to get the full impact of this, but here are some highlights:- Similar physical mechanisms are used to transmit sound waves from the ear to the brain in both vertebrates and certain insects.- Unrelated frogs from Madagascar and India “converged” on similar morphological, physiological, and developmental traits.- Hawaiian honeyeater birds and Australian honeyeater birds look and act very similarly and thus were once classified together, but their DNA shows they’re not closely related and are “a particularly striking example” of convergent evolution.- Spetner writes: “Convergence is invoked for evolutionary similarities among the proteins in the venoms found in all animal phyla, including arthropods, cephalopods, and vertebrates.” (p. 95)- Spetner explains “The ATPase of the monarch butterfly and of the leaf beetle … are said to have arrived at the same ATPase molecule by convergent evolution.” (p. 96)He aptly concludes:"These examples are labeled 'convergence' and are called 'surprising,' 'spectacular,' 'remarkable,' and 'striking.' They are 'surprising,' but only under the neo-Darwinian paradigm. Under the NREH, they are not surprising but expected." (p. 145; internal citations removed)Many other topics are covered in The Evolution Revolution. I highly recommend this short, up-to-date, well-informed, and well-written book for a review of some key, compelling evidence showing that species did not arise through neo-Darwinian mechanisms. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Masterful Follow-up to "Not By Chance" *by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014* "The Evolution Revolution" is a masterful follow-up to "Not By Chance" First, any book that exposes evolutionism and universal common descent as unscientific materialistic dogma deserves 3 stars. Dr Lee Spetner did that with "Not By Chance" and does so again with "The Evolution Revolution". Now he takes it further by saying that the "theory of evolution" doesn't come close to meeting the status of a theory. He is not alone when it comes to saying that. Add to that the fact that Dr Spetner does that along with exposing the equivocations, strawman arguments (the fixity of species nonsense) and defending his own evolutionary hypothesis- the non-random evolutionary hypothesis- and he gets 5 stars for this effort. And just for effect he takes on the always colorful theological arguments- "No Creator would have done that!"What equivocations? That because we observe anti-biotic resistance, the change in beak lengths, the change in coloration, that means that it is evidence for universal common descent via natural selection. He exposes the canard that macroevolution is just microevolution upon microevolution. He just points out that there aren't any known microevolutionary events that have a chance at being part of macroevolution. And it is also a Bozo no-no to use microevolution to refute a position no one adheres to, ie the fixity of species.Dr. Spetner approaches the topic of evolution by way of information and probabilities. Information in this sense is Dr Crick's version, ie the functional sequence specificity of nucleotides to form proteins, along with the information required to build organisms, which, for whatever reason, it seems he is willing to grant is also in the genome (along with epigenetic factors). Perhaps he does so just to show that even given evolutionary premises, evolutionism fails.As for probabilities he states the obvious- that it is up to evolutionists to provide them and they have failed. Why is it up to the evolutionists? Because it is their premise that culled random changes/ differing accumulations of genetic accidents produced the diversity of life (extant and extinct). And seeing that they say it takes too long to actually test they need to provide the probabilities of random changes' ability to do such a thing. Until they do theirs is outside of science and hence not a theory.Dr Spetner also observes that it is easier for populations to change their behavior- move or hunt differently-than it is to wait for some accidental change to come about and provide some advantage. However if organisms had some built-in capability to change when change is needed, that would be much better than waiting for some genetic accident. With such a mechanism many individuals would change and facilitate the spread of the advantageous trait. Enter epigenetics. We have observed instances of organisms being placed into a new environment and having substantial change occur within a few generations. This is evidence for something faster than natural selection and that something is "built-in responses to environmental cues" (Spetner 1997).Both "Not By Chance" and "The Evolution Revolution" are required reading for people interested in the evolution debate for the very reasons presented above, namely that "evolution" in a broad sense is not being debated, the blind watchmaker isn't the only option to explain the observed variations within populations and those observed variations are not indicative of the type of change required by macroevolution, ie universal common descent. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Readable Exposition of the nonrandom evolutionary hypothesis *by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2014* The Evolution Revolution - Why Thinking People are Rethinking the Theory of Evolution is a very readable exposition documenting why ascent from single cells to humans by mutations and natural selection has been falsified. The main part of the book documents what Specter calls the nonrandom evolutionary hypothesis, and others call microevolution, and creationists call variation within the genesis kinds. In short, Professor Spetner shows that much of the microevolution observed in nature is a result of epigenetics and other inbuilt mechanisms that are influenced by the environment to turn certain genes off and others on. Examples of this process are well known in bacteria. If certain types of sugar are present in the environment, and the preferred type is not, the bacteria produce the enzymes to utilize this less preferred type of sugar. If the preferred type of sugar is present, the bacteria does not produce the enzyme to process the other sugar. 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