Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism Paperback – June 1, 1999

Perloff is a brilliant logician and researcher. This is the second book I have read this year of his. His anti-Darwinist theory of evolution is air tight. I was convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. And this is coming from a guy with a graduate degree in the physical sciences who had a “Darwin Fish” on the back of his car 25 years ago. What sucks you into the Darwin Theory is that it appears to be beautifully logically consistent. Unfortunately, it is not supported by **any** evidence in the fossil record. And when you examine it closely, the logic of it falls apart as well. For example, so many organs require dozens of systems to work together for the organ to function at all. If one is missing, the organ is useless. So when you think about it, how would this organ missing one essential component and totally no functional be adaptively beneficial enough to evolve?Perloff is a Christian Fundamentalist, and after he is done with his TKO on Darwin’s Theory, he launches into astronomy and geology. What he does demonstrate is that current theories that are accepted as absolute fact, such as the Big Bang, are based on unproven assumptions. For example, the determination of the age of the Universe to be about 13 billion years is based on the assumption that the red shifting of light is due to the Doppler effect, which allows the scientist to evaluate the speed of expansion of the Universe. But the red shift might be based on different physical laws. For example, photons might slowly lose energy over time or distance, which could also account for the red shift and would drastically change every aspect of currently accepted cosmology. My problem with the non-Darwin part of the book is that Perloff is using these loopholes to push a fundie version of the age of the earth. As I recall, Bishop Usher calculated based on all the begats that the earth was created on Sept. 23 4004 BC at 9 AM. I found the latter chapters irritating and much less convincing than the Darwin first section of the book, and after a couple of chapters of this, I put the book back on the shelf. I would have given the book 5 stars for the Darwin section, but took one off for the parts that followed. I guess I am now a non-Christian fundamentalist special creationist, perhaps a new and emerging category. I now believe that life was created by the unimaginably intelligent and benevolent Creator of the Universe, or perhaps by some of its chief lieutenants, but I regard Genesis and the following four books of the Old Testament to be essentially the Classic Comic Book of the Sumer tablets, and the God of the ancient Hebrews, Yahweh. to be a somewhat psychopathic Anunnaki war lord, and not to be conflated with the actual Creator.

Mr. Perloff does an excellent job of identifying errors in the theory of evolution and proves that it is a highly flawed theory. He effectively disproves the theory of evolution. However, when he describes the origins of the races of man, he resorts to Darwinism. According to him, Noah’s daughters-in-law were of different races than his sons. From their mixed descendants evolved today’s races. If Noah and his sons were of one race and his sons' wives' were representative other races that exist today, to have a descendant who would possess the racial characteristics of one of these races is 4.6 x 10 to the 51st power. Mr. Perloff declares such odds as effectively impossible. If his claim has any merit, he fails to explain whether the races of Noah’s daughters-in-law were created or evolved. If he is a proponent of the unity of man, i.e., all humans are descended from Adam and Eve, which he seems to be, he has to use Darwinism to explain their origin. Like many opponents of evolution, he believes the young-earth theory, i.e., the age of the earth is no more than about 10,000 years. Like other young-earthers, he seems to believe that he must prove that the earth is only a few thousand years old to disprove evolution. He identifies geological phenomena that old-earhters have failed to explain away. Yet he ignores phenomena that support an earth being much, much older than 10,000 years. He presents measurements that support a young earth as reliable. However, measurements that support an old earth are unreliable. He is a proponent of a global flood around 2300-2500 B.C., the Noachian Flood. He presents geological information that support such a flood. However, he ignores geological information that refutes a global flood a few thousand years ago. Still, he does a good job of disproving the geological theory of uniformitarianism, which is a highly flawed theory. His book also discusses the Scope’s trail, eugenics, prohibition of prayer in school, and other issues and their relationship to Darwinism. Unfortunately, he confuses the Israelites of the Old Testament with Jews; the two are not the same. Also, he confuses today’s Israelis with the Old Testament Israelites; again, the two are not the same. Mr. Perloff is right about one thing: More faith is required to believe in the random coincidence of evolution than to believe in intelligence design. I would have given this book a four star rating if it were not for its flaws in geology and especially anthropology.

Perloff's work is outstanding. Good information for honest skeptics. There are MANY excellent treatments of this topic, for those who were raised in an academic environment of Darwinian evolutionary theory and have come to see that evolution simply does not have coherent answers to the questions true science is asking. Tornado In a Junkyard is probably the best one I have read.

In Tornado in a Junkyard, James Perloff does and excellent job of demonstrating the fallacies of the theory of of evolution. We have been taught that evolution is a proven fact, but it is not. In fact, we have been systematically lied to for years by those who deny the existence of God. Perloff writes in a very matter of fact way. He does not simply give his personal opinion, but rather he thoroughly examines the evidence, or the lack of evidence, surrounding the issues between evolution and creationism. This book is not a religious book, it is entirely a scientific book which honestly considers the truths and events behind the deception of evolution. In the last chapter Perloff examines the impact that this lie has had on our society. It is a very eye-opening book, that absolutely everyone should read whether you are christian or non-christian. I have read many books written on the evolutionary debate, and Tornado in a Junkyard is one of the best!

Astonishing facts revealed.

Real Science for real people.

Utterly compelling. A must for Christians and non believers alike. Incredibly well sourced. Wake up to the Truth.

I liked the whole concept. He really explains well how the fossil records fail to support and prove Darwin's theory. It explains how chance could not have produced our world. As a hard core Christian I think this book just solidified how I felt about the fact that a supreme creator must have produced our universe.

A good book. There are some gaps such as the absence of a critical sense towards "dinohoaxes" and heliocentrism, which is magnetically linked to evolutionism as a scientific fraud. The author must update his work.