The Bible & Science: The Ultimate Power Couple

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Would've been impressive if this was published in a peer reviewed journal instead of as just a book.

That is the game being played here. The author has a scientific background, he knows how science publications work, and presumably has an idea of why that stuff is important. But when it comes to the religious beliefs, the rigorous fact checking must be stopped, the god must be treated with kid gloves, the peer review process must be short circuited. Despite this, those who already want what the author claims to be true (it's no accident that athrock could not possibly have read the book yet, but has still decided that it's accurate) will trot it out as "scientific evidence" despite not going through any of the steps of the scientific method or publication regimen, and skeptics like us are expected not to ask why that is.

I mean, it's only a claim that, if true, would turn the majority of science on its head and contradict the majority of what we've learned. Why on earth would we want that fact checked?