A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson

I have been a big fan of Bill Bryson's for years. I really enjoy his style, and he makes pretty much everything he writes about interesting. 

This book, however, I had some issue with. Yes--it was interesting and he did a great job writing it. My issue is with the blind acceptance and treating as fact some of the popular theories, such as the big bang theory, evolution (one kind of creature turning into a completely different kind), that all dinosaurs died from a meteor hitting the earth etc. 

Yes, I believe in creation by intelligent design and it makes more sense than blindly accepting that nothing magically exploded and created the building blocks of everything which magically and randomly came together into the exact proportions of elements etc to create and sustain life. I just can't get past the blind acceptance of that.

Whether you are an evolutionist or not, though, I think this is a good read. If you don't believe in the theories in this book, it still gives the explanation of how they came to be accepted and what they all entail. I think it's important to know the history of the ideas. And for all the other stuff in the book, it is quite fascinating and put in a way that the lay man can grasp and enjoy, even.

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