(Signet paperback edition, published by the New American Library
of World Literature, Inc., 245 Fifth Ave., NYC 16. #746. 25¢)
by PIERRE LeComte DU NOÜY
Are you a Christian fan? Have you ever had that feeling creep in upon you at times that there might not be a God? Have you ever thought that you may be devoting your life to a lot of fol-de-rol cooked up by some maniac in the Dark Ages? Or are you an atheist fan? Have you ever wondered if maybe those dumb Christians might have something there? Are you an atheist because there has never been any real proof that a God exists?
If you are in either of the above categories, you should read HUMAN DESTINY. The Reader's Digest calls it "God's newest witness." Actually, though, it is not a religious book. The writer is a world-famous biologist, and he has for the most part devoted his book to the presentation of a new theory of evolution: The Telefinalist Hypothesis.
When you read HUMAN DESTINY, you follow the author through all the intricate reasoning which he has used in the formation of his new theory. In clear, simple words he lays the foundation upon which the reasoning is based; he leads you gradually upward from this foundation, presenting in new lights the known scientific facts which he uses; slowly, you sense the conclusions to which this reasoning is leading you, until finally you have covered the entire step-by-step process into the final summation of the Telefinalist Hypothesis.
I haven't space here to present this theory, but if you are not a fan who would be interested in a book of this type anyway, it would only serve to bore you if I did. So there is only this to say about the book in general: HUMAN DESTINY is a book for every thinking science-fiction fan in these times of war-scare and uncertainty of the future. It is a combination of scientific fact, philosophy, and sheer reasoning which is not only delightfully stimulating to the mind, but is also extremely comforting to your inner self. It presents for the first time concrete evidence for the substantiation of the fact that life cannot be produced by chance alone, and in doing so provides strong indirect evidence for the existence of a God. It is a volume which you will find a pleasure to read, and you will almost certainly want to make it a permanent part of your bookshelf.
I myself have read this book twice to date. And though I am inclined to regard the conclusions reached by the author with a slight air of skepticism, (due to certain contradictory statements made by du Noüy in the formation of his theory) I still heartily recommend HUMAN DESTINY to all fans as a book from which you will derive benefit merely by reading it, even tho you may not have your thinking-cap with you at the time. And it's more fun if you use those little gray cells to isolate the weaknesses in it.
Buy it. Read it. See if you don't like it.
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