Book Review: God's Forgotten Truth

I'm reading a book about God at the moment. No, its not the Bible. No, I haven't been converted yet. I was asked to read it by a friend of mine who is Christian. We kind of agree to disagree, and he's not really that intent to try and convert me, but does try to make me understand his point of view. So, knowing that I've got an IT background and that I've got issues with the existence of God, he bought me a book about it. The fact that he actually bought the book and gave it to me kind of gives me the obligation to read it.

At first I was quite open to the idea. It helps me understand better what I'm currently rejecting and gives me yet another perspective on the whole idea of Christianity. Also, it was touting itself as being written from an ITIL perspective, which I guess is something I'm more familiar with.

But then I read the first chapter and got very frustrated. Then I read the second chapter, and got even more frustrated. From each chapter from there, I almost dreaded picking the book up and reading it. The author attempts to debunk the theory of evolution by basically saying its a lie. Oh theres a few good arguments like how its completely feasible for the world to be at the current population level within 4000 years of growth given the history of growth in the US or how theres no human bones next to dinosaurs. But then he doesn't realise that these have perfectly plausible scientific explanations (i.e. the US within the last 200 years is not indicative of the world between 2000 B.C. and now and that dinosaurs did not live at the same time as humans). I remember he explained that science is compatible with miracles like the parting of the Red Sea. If you blow hard enough, water will part, so God made a big wind come up and part the sea. He forgot to mention that if it was blowing hard enough to part the sea, it would make it quite hard to walk.

I got to about chapter six, where it talks about the Book of Revelations, where I laughed out loud while reading it on public transport. As you all probably know, the Book covers a lot of things about demons, the end of the world and judgement day. I don't think I can explain it properly, so i'm going to copy out a bit of the book and let it explain itself:

"In Revelation 9:7-11, he describes the locusts: "The shape of the lucsts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like wmen's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. And they had breastplates like breatplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of charios with many hores running into battle. They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings on their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in hebrew is Abaddon (= the destoyer) but in Greek he has the name Apollyon."

It then goes on to show a picture of a Cobra and an Apache helicopter like so:

"The locusts describe by John in his days."

Yes, with that caption.

It then goes on to say something similar about steel horeses with fire coming out of them for tanks. At least this makes some more sense. The helicopter one didn't even say they were flying!

Thats about as far in the book as I think I'm willing to go. I'm not sure if I can take it anymore. It is shaking my faith in humanity.