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Shocking, 24 April 2004
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This book is shocking. Its potential to be a well thought out, wellpresented challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution by means of naturalselection was let down by a remarkable lack of knowledge and understandingof the subject and a laughable approach to attempted scientific writing.El Ayouty justifies his lack of scientific language by claiming this makesit more accessible to the layperson, but instead it becomes a book for thebrainless, with no references to papers or particular work by anyscientists, and therefore no justification with evidence for anysuggestions he puts forward. His experience of good scientific techniqueis clearly minimal, as there is no science in the book whatsoever.Whatever can claim to be taught biology is quoted incorrectly or simplywrong, with no foundation or research-based backing. The list of mistakesmade about biology and evolution is too long to touch on here, I'm surethe author has received much in the way of corrective material already! Myadvice to anyone who reads this book is to read another one, or to take acourse in macro-biology. Some biochemistry wouldn't hurt as well! PoorCherif El Ayouty! He has tried to write a book on a subject which he hascome across (not specialised in), seen it to be a bit doubtful, decided tobe different and question this subject. Unfortunately, though questioningthings is always good, deciding by yourself that, just to be different,you will come up with an alternative theory and discard any previousattempts is not always the best idea, especially when your alternativeinvolves an alien culture. Need I say more? El Ayouty claims withoutquestion that evolution by means of natural selection has as much evidencefor it as invasion of Earth by alien cultures. I refer El Ayouty to thenumerous occurrences of natural selection in the field, the laboratory,the home, the hospital etc, where evolution is continuous and observable.Once again, poor Cherif! I lament the ignorance shown within this book!Take nothing in "Goodbye Darwin", dear unfortunate reader, as truth.Unless the person in question already has knowledge of the subject, no-oneshould ever be exposed to this cascade of misunderstanding anduntruthfulness, for fear of brainwashing. To make matters even worse, ElAyouty makes several comments which verge on racism. Whether this is mereparanoia on my part is up for debate, but references to 'blacks, whites,browns, reds and yellows', the differences in childbirth between Africanand European women, and the suggestion that we are all almost differentspecies, are hard to fathom, and certainly conflict with El Ayouty'sdescription of himself as open-minded when it comes to that sort ofthing.
To write more would be either to continue writing on El Ayouty'swriting, or to start correcting some of his mistakes, both of which areunnecessary in this review, so I'll round of with another final warning toa prospective buyer: if you are to buy this book, bear in mind that it isrepresentative of all that is NOT science or biology, it does not givewhat it claims to, and it is not an alternative to Darwin.
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