Missing Text in Book? Help
Why I Am a Christian
https://www.logos.com/product/26312/why-i-am-a-christianComments
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I do not have a paper version of this book so cannot verify the following.
Based on the following quote from page 137: I think Ross may be referring to tables in his book The Creator and the Cosmos (LLS:CREATRCOSMOS)
https://www.logos.com/product/5285/the-creator-and-the-cosmos which presumably presents the same material. Yet you seem to have a point as in that those tables are numbered Tables 14.1 and 16.2 in The Creator and the CosmosA summary of the thirty-five characteristics of the universe that must be fine-tuned for any kind of physical life to be possible appears in table 2. Table 3 gives a conservative calculation of the probability that all 122 characteristics of our galaxy and solar system, acknowledged as fine-tuned for life, could be met without invoking divine design. References to the discoveries on which these tables and calculations are based are presented in my books and booklets on the subject.54
The above text does indeed seem to infer that those tables should also be included in Why I am a Christian, although as I said above, I do not have a paper copy so cannot confirm if Ross intended them to be included but they were inadvertently omitted by Baker Books, the publisher of Why I am a Christian.
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Google Books is great. In just a few seconds I'd found the book, seached for "Design Parameters", found that heading on p.147, and then viewed Table 2: it's quite extensive, and spans pp.148–151, with Table 3 spanning pp.152–155. (The resulting URL, at least as it appears to me: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=geqvhH9So-sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22why+i+am+a+christian%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22design%20parameters%22&f=false)
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Thank you. That confirms to me that the logos book is missing the tables
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As far as I can tell there are no missing tables in the Logos Edition of The Creator and the Cosmos (CREATRCOSMOS).
I believe the confusion me stem from the fact that the Logos Edition of The Creator and the Cosmos (CREATRCOSMOS) is the third edition. Why I am a Christian (WIAACHR) references the second edition of The Creator and the Cosmos.
According to the preface of the third edition, much of the book was rewritten and includes more than 70 pages of new content.
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Why would the book refer to tables that aren't there? If you look at the Google link the tables are in that one. Why remove tables? It doesn't make sense
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As you can see the google version of the book has the table in it. I'm not sure why you brought up creator and the cosmos but this book is not part of that book and it directly refers to tables
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Kyle G. Anderson said:
As far as I can tell there are no missing tables in the Logos Edition of The Creator and the Cosmos (CREATRCOSMOS).
I believe the confusion me stem from the fact that the Logos Edition of The Creator and the Cosmos (CREATRCOSMOS) is the third edition. Why I am a Christian (WIAACHR) references the second edition of The Creator and the Cosmos.
According to the preface of the third edition, much of the book was rewritten and includes more than 70 pages of new content.
The missing tables are in Why I am a Christian not the Creator and the Cosmos
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Mattillo said:Kyle G. Anderson said:
As far as I can tell there are no missing tables in the Logos Edition of The Creator and the Cosmos (CREATRCOSMOS).
I believe the confusion me stem from the fact that the Logos Edition of The Creator and the Cosmos (CREATRCOSMOS) is the third edition. Why I am a Christian (WIAACHR) references the second edition of The Creator and the Cosmos.
According to the preface of the third edition, much of the book was rewritten and includes more than 70 pages of new content.
The missing tables are in Why I am a Christian not the Creator and the Cosmos
Thanks. I was not following that at all in the original posts.
This is a very old book (2002) and I was able to track down the materials the publisher supplied us and they are ... not pretty. We'll have to track down a copy of the print and go from there.
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Awesome! Thank you Kyle. If you could keep me updated I'd appreciate it.
Thank you for taking the time to look into this. I only reviewed this one chapter of the book thus far. If I find more errors I'll let you know
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Kyle: Are these not the same tables as Ross has in his book The Creator and the Cosmos (LLS:CREATRCOSMOS)
https://www.logos.com/product/5285/the-creator-and-the-cosmos which seems to present the same material.
Those tables are numbered Tables 14.1 and 16.2 in The Creator and the CosmosPresumably that can be verified by looking at what they have on Google books per the link provided earlier in this thread.
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