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This is an idea I came up with recently for what ought to be on the cover of *EWilloughby's, ~keesey's and my evolution book. The cover probably won't look exactly like this, because I imagine that the publisher will have their own expectations about what the cover should be like, but I think it'll be useful for me to have something to show them about what I have in mind.

The background image here is a public domain image of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is a chapter in the book of Isaiah if you know how to read Hebrew. The two foreground images represent William Beebe's 1915 Tetrapteryx prediction, which was fulfilled in 2003 by the discovery of Microraptor gui.

I guess maybe most of my watchers hadn't been aware before now what our book is probably going to be called. The title is a reference to exhibits in the Creation Museum like this one, which claim that "God's Word" and "Human Reason" are in contradiction, and part of the point of the book will be to show that they don't have to be. I always find it amusing when books are named after the concepts they're intended to disprove, such as Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate, Arthur Jensen's book Bias in Mental Testing, and Kenneth Miller's book Only a Theory.

The part of this image that took the longest by far was creating the Tetrapteryx and Microraptor images in Adobe Illustrator. I was originally intending them to be part of the logo for the website to go along with the book, but I think it's probably better to use something a less detailed for that.

~Asanbonsam Aug 3, 2012

Good idea. Another one could have been showing the crocoduck and sinornithosaurus.

~Agahnim Aug 3, 2012

I don't think the crocoduck has much in common with Sinornithosaurus, or with Beebe's prediction. The crocoduck is what creationists think evolution would predict, based on an inaccurate understanding of it, and it doesn't much resemble anything in the real world. On the other hand in Beebe's case, the reason he was able to illustrate something so close to what actually existed is because he had such an extensive understanding of evolution and bird anatomy.

~Asanbonsam Aug 4, 2012

You gave me an idea. But my knowlegde of extinct species is barely more than laymen standard so I don't know whether something like that existed. Did anyone ever draw a similarly transitional form between fish and amphibian before fish like Eusthenopteron or much later Tictalic were discovered?

*Archive-Alicorn Aug 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Should be titled "God's" Word. Also the deity should be specified. Nonetheless to put religion against science is idiocy. Science has surpassed religion by leaps and bounds.

*EWilloughby Aug 3, 2012

The book is meant as an attack on creationism, not on Christianity. No creationist was ever convinced of the truth of evolution by having their religion shamed.

*Archive-Alicorn Aug 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yes I tend to agree, but then again how else? Most of them are beyond reason.

~Cousture Aug 3, 2012

You write: " which claim that "God's Word" and "Human Reason" are in contradiction, and part of the point of the book will be to show that they don't have to be."

So if I understand well, your goal is to show that there are no contradictions between creationism and science, is that it?

~Agahnim Aug 3, 2012

If that's what you think it means, you evidently don't know very much about me. What I meant is that the Bible can be interpreted in a way that's compatible with evolution.

~Cousture Aug 3, 2012

I confess I know absolutely nothing about you or your book project, but I amk curious which is why I am enquiring. I would be interested in learning more, if you're in the mood to chat.

For example, I'm trying to understand your motivation here. Who are you writing for? Is your book for Christians who think evolution isn't true?

~Agahnim Aug 3, 2012

Yeah, it's mostly intended for people who are familiar with the Creation Museum, and who might be convinced by its arguments. The creationist arguments discussed in greatest depth are those used by the organization that runs it, Answers in Genesis. The Creation Museum has a lot of flashy exhibits with things like animatronic dinosaur models, and one of the reasons Emily has been doing her feathered dinosaur illustrations for this project is so our book can have something that's visually attractive the same way.

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