It is easy to mock the historic follies of any subject, but "ontology recapitulates phylogeny", Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man were dead as serious subjects of evolution long before this book came out. Whatever Haeckel may have done is irrelevant, and has long been so. Homo erectus is still believed, but Hanegraaff doesn't touch on any of the many fossils discovered after Java Man. He mentions macroevolution and microevolution, and yet neglects to mention that biologists don't consider that a meaningful distinction, much less engage with their responses. He'll impute whatever evils he wants to evolutionists, but he ignores that racism was a perversive social problem common to evolutionist and creationist alike, and goes so far to claim that "While Scripture candidly acknowledges the existence of slavery, it never condones it." ("Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves." Leviticus 25:44.) (This claim frankly astonishes me; the first line of the forward claims he is a "superlative Bible teacher", so this is either a lie or a gross ignorance of a subject he teaches.)

Even in 1998, this would not have impressed someone with basic knowledge of evolution. Given that he was basically ignoring any developments beyond the early 20th century already, fifteen extra years of evidence doesn't mean that much, but DNA sequencing has provided huge new branches of evidence for evolution. ( )

This is not even a good Creationist book; Hanegraaff has only a limited understanding of standard creationist claims, and even misstates those. His knowledge is slim, tone condescending, and understanding simplistic. A curiosity, nothing more. ( )