Reddit reviews Evolution

Awesome! I've read a bit if Williams, but haven't been able to read the whole thing yet (I can't wait!).

If you're looking for a graduate level TEXTBOOK, a fantastic one is "Evolution" by Nick Barton: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Nicholas-H-Barton/dp/0879696842

It was recommended to be by an evolutionary biology professor at my university as the best there currently is. However, this is far from popular science, so be prepared.

If you're interested in a more popular science-y book that's not completely for the layman, The Selfish Gene is a must. It's a classic in the field and covers a huge range of fascinating material. The Extended Phenotype is its sequel, and is also quite good.

If you're interested in multi-level selection or "group selection", check out work by Samir Okasha and David Sloan Wilson.

>My question is simple, if atheists don't have all the answers to how life started how can you say a believer like myself is wrong?

Whether or not we have the answers is irrelevant to whether or not your position is wrong.

Whether or not your position wrong depends only on what the position is and its justification for it. We think your justification is faulty. And we believe that it is unlikely that through a faulty chain of logic you happened to stumble upon the one correct solution.

>but I know how big I relative to this huge/infinite universe

How big are you relative to it? Isn't it implied that god made the universe for humans? Wouldn't that make humans a pretty big part of it?

>I can just look at an orange and appreciate God and religion. I'm very serious- the proof for me that God exists is all around me

Can you explain what an orange has to do with proof of god existence?

What do you see when you look at starving crippled girls who raped daily because people think having sex with virgins will cure/prevent AIDS?

>I want to know why.

Because an orange has little do with God's existance. Nothing about an orange has to do with god. We fully understand how oranges came into existence. It is actually, really, really fascinating.

>What does an anteist feel when they see the stars and moon, what do you feel when you look the anomy of the human body , or when you see a catapliier turning into a butterfly.

That the universe is incredible, but it was by no means made for us.

>All this was random, completely and utterly random?

Says who? What do you mean by random? The flow of things has been defined by the laws of physics, any "randomness" coming at a quantum level where it still isn't exactly "random".

>How is that possible?

Who knows.

>why is this earth and everything in it any different?

Because we have evidence the earth (and everything else) wasn't designed. As for the cause of the universe/existence, we don't know, but we have little reason to suspect it has a designer.


Edit:

After reading some of your posts it seems you have a very simple/child like understanding of evolution. I don't mean this as an insult, but I would point out that if you don't understand it, then you can't place accurate judgement on it. The same way you would say I was foolish for critiquing the koran, despite never having studied it, it is foolish to critique evolution unless you first understand what it claims.

This is a very good book:
>http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Nicholas-H-Barton/dp/0879696842


You might also find this relevant:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w2M50_Xdk