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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I think one of the biggest problem for contemporary readers is the 19th century writing style. This is not a fast read, and sections can seem overly detailed where Darwin is citing either numerous examples or numerous details to support a point.
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I've tried reading (a facsimile copy of the first edition of) Origin a few times, but never could get into it. Part of it is the writing style, but part of it is you (meaning someone living in the modern day and NOT some young-earther nitwit) already know that he reached the right conclusions and the long stretches of explaining
how he reached his conclusions are anticlimactic. Plus, modern understanding of and evidences for evolution go far beyond what Darwin knew at the time-- reading Origin to understand evolution is like reading Galileo's observations of Jupiter's moons when you could be looking at photos from the Galileo orbiter-- interesting in a historical sense, but far short of what is known today.
I hear that this is a great new textbook (though I haven't read it yet because there are no cheap used copies in my price rage yet):
http://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Bank-I...dp/0981519474/
BTW, for more reviews of
Creation:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1205717-creation/