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Creation Revisited Hardcover – January 1, 1993

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The author of The Creation returns to take a fresh look at the great questions of our existence and to tackle the unapproachable with a firm belief that an essential simplicity underlies the apparent complexity of all existence. "Essential reading for non-scientists who yearn to go where physics borders the ultimate."--Washington Post Book World.

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W H Freeman & Co
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W H Freeman & Co; First Edition (January 1, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 132 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0716745003
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0716745006
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Peter Atkins was born in England in 1940 and went to the University of Leicester for his first degree (in chemistry) and his PhD (1964). After a year in UCLA as a Harkness Fellow he went to Oxford University as lecturer in physical chemistry and Fellow of Lincoln College, where he remained until his retirement in 2007. Some retirement! He continues to write books, which now number close to 70 with more on the way. He was the founding chairman of IUPAC's Committee on Chemistry Education, which is charged with bringing good practice in the teaching of chemistry, especially in developing countries, and has been a visiting professor in Japan, China, Israel, France, and New Zealand. He continues to lecture widely, both on aspects of chemical education and on the communication of science to the general public. He lives near Oxford.

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Inspiring.

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Donny Reid

Full of awesome information on each left hand page to match points ...

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Really incredible book. Near science poetry really. Full of awesome information on each left hand page to match points mentioned on the right hand page. Beautiful.

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Howard Schneider

Creation?

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2000

'Creation' refers to creation of the Universe in this reference. Atkin writes, "...elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming through the countryside...the details of the processes involved in evolution are fascinating, but they are unimportant: competing, replicating molecules with time on their hands will inevitably evolve." While this may be an overly simplistic view of the conditions necessary to evolve creatures as complex as elephants, the purpose of Atkin's book is to try to simplify everything as much as possible so that the creation of space, of dimensions, of time and of matter from nothing can be understood. Atkin indeed feels he has accomplished these goals, as is written on the last page, "...fundamental science may be almost at an end, and might be completed within a generation...that is not to say that science as a whole need ever sleep. There are extremely difficult and important questions, such as those concerning the details of biological function...when we have dealt with the values of the fundamental constants by seeing that they are unavoidably so, and have dismissed them as irrelevant, we shall have arrived at complete understanding. Fundamental science then can rest. We are almost there. Complete knowledge is just within our grasp. Comprehension is moving across the face of the Earth, like the sunrise." This reference is easy to read, and introduces the reader to complex subjects in cosmology and physics. While the reader may view Atkin's theory of creation with some speculation, the language of this reference is poetic and convincing.

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Dr. David Bowman

If you want to know what's REALLY going on, buy it. Now.

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2002

WOW!
This review is biased, because for about ten years, I've considered this the best book I've ever read. In fact, I bought two copies for my friends and gave mine away. I'm here to find a used copy of this elegant masterpiece.
And that's not because it told me any *facts* about biological or cosmic evolution that I didn't already know, it's because Creation Revisited brings all the disparate elements together to gives the reader "the big AHA!".
Adkins starts off with "I'm going to take your mind on a journey". Well, he got THAT right.
He presents a tree of reasoning, beginning with the leaves and proceding to the shocking root.
The "leaves" are elephants. Adkins: "Our belief in elephants needs no explaination. We can see them lumbering across the plains".
But where did the elephants we observe come from? Adkins is (putatively) willing to believe that God made them. BUT... God didn't need to make ALL the living elephants. He only had to make the parents of the ones we see.
He goes on to suppose that God is a "lazy" God, who only bothers to create things which can't arise naturally (like the elephants we see
having come from their parents). He takes this back to the first mammals, to life per se, and to the big bang.
It turns out that God really didn't have to do ANYTHING AT ALL, and even HE can be eliminated. The "root" of the tree is exactly: nothing. Zero.
The final chapter, after that revelation, is about the mathematics of clouds of theoretical points. It alone is worth getting the book for.
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Since my writing pales in comparison to Dr. Adkins', I'm afraid that this simplistic summary of his book will induce you NOT to buy it.
Buy it.
Buy it and buy copies for any of your friends who want to understand what's REALLY going on.

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BASHIR M.

Don’t waste your time or money.

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021

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Buyer beware. The total pages of the book are 163 but the actual text of the book is written only on the odd numbered pages upto page #157, which makes it only a 79 page book. The left hand or the even numbered pages are either blank or short notes, some of which are just one-liners. Aside from this fact, the whole conversation is awful. All speculation and not a single proof of the author’s ramblings. I wonder why the paperback edition is so outrageously priced at $907.00?

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

Challenging and enlightening. Atkins does not disappoint. Excellent 'food for thought'.

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Joe

The Culmination of Millenia of Science Philosophy

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2013

If you have ever found yourself in a debate on whether mathematics is a discovered part of the universe or whether it is a human invention - Then this book is for you!

This book runs along a similar vein as books by Steven Hawking and Brian Greene, but where Hawking and Greene approach the world through scientific fact, this book combines facts and logic to form a "philosophy of science."

This book is one of the most powerful pieces of logic I've ever read. Don't let the title fool you. It IS about creation- just not necessarily by a deity.

I can't say enough good about this book! I absolutely loved it!

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Derek Hillard

Strange Book

Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2019

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Very strange book, I'm not sure what it's purpose is. It's not detailed enough for a science book and it's to incomprehensible to convert non-science interested religious people to atheism. The author tries to prove the universe came from nothing using set theory! St. Paul tried to prove the existence of God citing nature as evidence. St. Paul had the better argument, but neither is convincing.

Tim

Great review

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2012

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A great review - a must read for those who want to understand more about the big bang and how the universe created itself from nothing

G. Ackermann

Ein erneuter Versuch von Atkins

Reviewed in Germany on January 8, 2013

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Wie in seinen früheren Büchern versucht Atkins, die Creatio ex nihilo naturwissenschaftlich plausibel zu machen. Trotz der gut beschriebenen Entwicklungsgeschichte ist er aus meiner Sicht mit dem Anfang erneut gescheitert - was ja nicht verwundert.

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