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More like a whiny sermon.

Revisado: 10-09-24

What starts out as a good geology book, slowly turns into a rant espousing all of the standard cultish points of environmentalist progressivism. Unless you want to be berated for how terrible humanity is, or perhaps you enjoy being complained at, you should pass.

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Skip the epilog.

Revisado: 09-25-24

A great book that explains the early Earth. But why do authors writing about science always seem to be obligated to go off on some anti-religion rant, only to end with their own prayers to their god of scientism?

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Disappointing

Revisado: 08-23-24

I think the author is still that Alabama Baptist looking for God, only now that god is determinism. It's also far more verbose than necessary. Reductionism and statistics cannot explain everything in the world, yet so many "scientists" insist on chasing after this utopia rather than simply doing science.

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Strange Narrator Pronunciations

Revisado: 06-24-24

Stop using British narrators who have weird pronunciations. Names are pronounced a certain way no matter how they are spelled.

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So much exposition

Revisado: 05-03-21

Don't start this book unless you're willing to listen to the second book, or you'll be very disappointed. It's pretty good, but so long and when you get to the end, you find out you've really only just started. But I've listened to the second book, and if you have the patience, it's worth the trip.

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Starts well, but

Revisado: 03-25-21

Very good start, but the last two hours are worthless progressive politics and nothing to do with science.

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Too much politics

Revisado: 12-03-20

Great information on the recent advancements in genetic analysis, but full of multiple chapters of apologizing for and justifying of the politically correct dogma of present day academia. Talk of nationalism, racism, sexism, and all manner of academic bigotry is peppered throughout the text. If you want to see how politics is corrupting science at the most basic level, listen to this book.

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Great stories and no politics.

Revisado: 11-04-20

Really captures the potential for nuclear power and the fumbling into danger involved with such new technology. This is what can happen when you are building big powerful things that don't have an off switch.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 03-02-20

Another scientist who thinks it's their mission to debunk anything that isn't religiously scientific. Part of the time I wasn't sure if he wasn't trying to convince himself, but he mostly comes off as a know-it-all and anybody that doesn't agree with him is not "forward thinking". All his points are reductionist and linear. And he hilariously side steps the recent gender politics issues by simply stating that gender can mean whatever we want it to mean. No biology, just whatever. Very empirical (not).

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Too Much Biography

Revisado: 02-28-20

Way too much biography stories. I really don't care how much one scientist liked or hated another scientist. You end up just thinking all scientists are prima donnas.

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