REFUTING COMPROMISE by Jonathan Sarfati

I am about 100 pages from the end of REFUTING COMPROMISE by Jonathan Sarfati. I am finding it to be quite good. His arguments against the teachings of Hugh Ross are sound and well referenced. Sarfati also manages to disseminate a lot of creation information. I was intrigued by the genetic section. I need to learn more about that subject and will be hunting for a book on genetics soon to fill this gap in my understanding.

Another section deals with cosmology. I have one of the books often referred to: Humphreys' STARLIGHT AND TIME. In this book he outlines a new theory that accommodates the visibility of light from distant stars in a young universe. I am currently in the section on young earth evidences. The section on the decay of the earth''s magnetic field was well done, so were the moon's orbit and the salinity of the oceans. But the most interesting tidbit was the radio halos. ICR has a lot of information on this topic in their R.A.T.E. program.

Richard K. Morgan homepage

Morgan keeps a small site with just the type of information a fan would like; such as when the next book is going to come out. Click on the CURRENT link to read a brief excerpt from THIRTEEN (aka THE BLACK MAN) and to learn of this new trilogy. The trilogy sounds like Tim Powers style fantasy.

Meeting Date: February 10

The next date we could all agree on was Feb. 10th. We will discuss Jonathan Sarfati's REFUTING COMPROMISE.

I realize that missing a meeting in January will cause some slippage in the HMTP but this book deserves its own time for discussion. We will have to switch gears for this one, being a Creation Apologetics book, and I don't think sharing the meeting with STEEL BEACH would do either book justice.

Location to be determined later.

New Sawyer Book ROLLBACK

Robert J. Sawyer's latest ROLLBACK is due to be released in April.

New Morgan Book THIRTEEN

Richard K. Morgan has a new book coming out in June. THIRTEEN. I don't know anything else about it other than the title.

01/19/07 - I just learned that THIRTEEN is the USA title for THE BLACK MAN. Morgan has an excerpt from it on his site.

Deep Space Rumble: THE PRESTIGE

Let me make a pledge to you; THE PRESTIGE is the kind of movie that keeps us going to the movies, you will love it. I hesitate to go into too much detail because much of it turns on the various plot twists. Let's start with the acting. I have been disappointed by Hugh Jackman in the past. I think he sleepwalked through Swordfish and Van Helsing fell far short of my expectations, but in THE PRESTIGE he is absolutely convincing. Christian Bale has always been one to watch, and here the fascination is to watch him dissolve into the role so that I was no longer seeing Bale performing, but was seeing only his character. Jackman and Bale play rival magicians. Their rivalry is central to the film and these two actors pull it off famously, and is the reason this film works for me so well. Also featured in the film is David Bowie as my favorite mad scientist Nikola Tesla, in his Colorado Springs laboratory. Bowie gives Tesla an air of dignity I wish his later years truly had. To be brief this movie is highly recommended. It has magic and revenge as central themes. Throw in a few Tesla coils and lost technology and more plot twists than I can remember and you have the kind of movie that I want to see three or four times, just to detect the nuances that I know I missed.