Improbable Planet
How Earth Became Humanity's Home

This is an improbably long list of cherry picked proof texts that could have been significantly shortened and reworked to be accessible to the casual reader, but rather it is more like a constant droning of mental noise. The book's title is almost sufficient to show the author's point. THE GIST: The......more

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was interesting and well-written. It kept my attention while wading through some pretty deep scientific explanations of how the Earth was specially prepared to host the human race. The book assumes the earth/universe is billions of years old, so if you don't hold t......more

If you are scientifically minded you will love this book. Before picking up this book, it would really help if you were at least familiar with cosmology, the life sciences and geology in order to appreciate the full spectrum and flow of thought. The book was touted as the most up-to-date treatise on......more

Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home is an amazing read. I work with several project managers at my job, and they have shown me representations of the schedules of their various projects. These include the necessary order of numerous steps, deadlines for the steps, the goals of each s......more

Disclaimer: my review is done as an as-of-yet young-earth-inclined evangelical Christian persuaded that the age of the earth is of considerably less importance than the rhetoric associated with my position would generally allow. I had to (try to) suspend judgment on the basis of my own predisposition......more