Advantages: Excellent recording and product
Disadvantages: Pricey - but very much worth every penny!

...of a libretto and continuo (a musical speech with a piano accompaniment). After this, a description of the act in question (the creation of light, or beasts for example), is depicted with an aria, and the end of each day is rounded with a chorus. Haydn does a splendid job of painting a picture with music, and there is something in this work to please everyone, due to the vast variety of moods and feelings created. Chaos, for example, is played ever so quietly, and then at the creation of light.....well, I won't spoil it! We here drums being bashed to represent thunder; delicate woodwind for the creation of fauna and a vast choir that sings triumphantly to praise the work of God. Towards the end, we come to Adam and Eve, their joy at being created and paired together and their thanks to God. Before the magnificent final chorus (through which... Read review

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Advantages: Exciting and moving performance, fine singers, orchestra and conductor
Disadvantages: None really

...-excited exuberance of a puppy that has treed its first cat! Background: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) enjoyed a prolific and highly successful career composing in a wide variety of genres from opera to piano sonatas and is widely regarded to have fine-tuned the Classical Style in his string quartets and symphonies. When Haydn started composing "Die Schoepfung" (The Creation in English) in 1786 he had returned to Vienna after a highly successful time in England where his music was feted by everyone from the King downwards. He was now at the height of his powers, with a doctorate from Oxford University in his pocket and was certainly very aware of the commercial value of his music having made a substantial amount of money in England. From the copious archived documentation, we can read that Haydn felt there was nothing more he could say... Read review

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Advantages: Evolution is good science
Disadvantages: Creation is non science and bizarre theology

...Let my first start by saying this. I am currently writing a book on bizarre beliefs, and creationism forms a large part of it. In this review, I intend to set out to prove that creationism is not a viable scientific alternative to the theory of evolution or the surrounding theories of abiogenesis, and the natural study of the Earth. The arguments put forward by creationists are fallacious, disingenious and are red herrings on the path to scientific understanding. Creationism or intelligent design should not be taught in school science classes for a number of reasons, which I will delve in to later. There is a great deal of controvesy in both Britain and the United States over the teaching of creationism, especially since Sir Peter Vardy opened a number of schools in the North of England which teach creationism as a scientific... Read review

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Advantages: New fossil evidence turning up all the time
Disadvantages: None - make up your own mind!

...Creation Vs Evolution. Fact or Fiction? Is Creation true, or just mumbo jumbo spouted by fundamentalist Christians and other religions? Until 7 or 8 years ago, I didn’t believe in the creation, and took the evolutionary view. After all I am a scientist! What do you expect? I reckon more than 90% of scientists do. When I became a Born Again Christian 12 years ago, I really wanted to find out as much as possible about God, my faith and, of course, the Bible. One day, at a retreat at a Christian healing Center called Ellel Pierrepont, see http://www.ellelministries.org/, I was talking to a female minister and declared that I believed in evolution. She burst out crying! She said that we are, in fact, undergoing the degradation of creation, things are getting worse, not better! I was really taken aback. What does she mean, I thought. So... Read review

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Advantages: The truth is not out there, it is within
Disadvantages: There are some Skeptics

...This is a challenge from “dididave” and he quotes: My challenge to you is to write a review in 700 words or less and still get pre-dominantly VH ratings. If I can humbly ask ciaoers to rate all reviews on content not length. Before I begin my 700 words on “Creation Vs Evolution” let me first explain my reason for choosing this subject and linking it to “dididave” challenge. 1) I believe there is a lot of misunderstanding of this topic. 2) There are a lot of people who do not want to think about this topic, as they see it as having no significance to them. Hopefully by the end of this review your will have thought about, perhaps for the first time, where we all came from. 3) A lot of writings on this topic tend to be far too long and people get fed up reading them. 4) People tend to accept what scientists say without... Read review

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Advantages: Get rid of Jehovah's witnesses!
Disadvantages: A sterile debate

...When I was at Uni, I shared a house with sixteen other lads, one of whom happened to be a Christadelphian. I know this sounds like a brand of soft cheese, but it is in fact a sect of Christianity. When we got drunk (as we frequently did in the first year of my degree) the hot topics to argue about were invariably politics and evolution. They also had the advantage that they could go on indefinitely, as religion is not based on reason. (Our arguments on politics were equally futile). Belief in Creationism boils down to blind faith. The Word of God must be true, therefore, He must have created the Universe in seven days, the Earth must be 6008 years old (as espoused by Bishop Ussher in the seventeenth century, who painstakingly worked out the chronology from the Bible), and the Sun must orbit the Earth, etc. All ludicrous... Read review

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Advantages: Kids love it, very tasty
Disadvantages: Maybe too much sugar

...Just when we thought they couldn't possibly think of more ideas, they blow us away with their new inventive idea. Coco Pops creations is all the coco pops cereals together in one pack, but in seperate boxes so that different creations can be made in the cereal and kids can have fun eating their breakfast at the same time; All these varieties of coco pops are very tasty. Very chocolatey. I myself couldnt resist it. The pack contains, coco pops original, coco pops rocks, coco pops crunchers and coco pops munchers. I have little brothers and sisters and they love this product. They can't get enoughof it! However, what people should do, is put some coco pops of each variety in 4 bowls and give that to the children, because if you give the whole thing to them, they might eat too much of it and also make a mess! The packaging... Read review

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Advantages: Attractive box and some good picks
Disadvantages: Ingredient information not very clear, expensive

...What can I say other than I can't stop nibbling at these biscuits. Firstly I did not buy them, I got them in the work hamper, unlike year we got Fox's creation biscuit tin, I seen this box and thought ok. I didn't take a lot of notice as it was nearly christmas and things were getting mad. he one thing I did notice that while shopping I noticed this box on the shelf and it was £3.99, wow that's dear for a box of chocolate biscuits. Well when it came to opening them I noticed it said 10 of our most creative biscuits and inside there is 2 of the same, so 20 biscuits inside the box. The weight of the box is 400g It is a very deep burgundy colour with very appetizing pictures of some of the biscuits inside. The ingredients are on the back of the box, but it gives you all ingredients together not individually, which is a bit... Read review

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Advantages: Pleasant melodies, good structure
Disadvantages: not terribly adventurous in harmony

...Franz Joseph Haydn's music is interesting as it is pleasant to listen to. Although he is actually Austrian, most of Haydn's music was written in Hungary for Prince Esterhazy's twice weekly dinner parties. Which meant that many of Haydn's symphonies and string quartets were written in less than four days - quite an achievement, when you consider the length of time his contemporaries spent writing similar works. Haydn wrote and conducted high standard early classical style classics for a small group of musicians who were employed by the Prince. And it is in many of Haydn's pieces that we can begin to have an insight into the life of him and his musicians. For example, the "Surprise Symphony" was written with the party gusts in mind. It begins in a plodding, slow mesmerising rhythm, which the already bloated and drowsy guests... Read review

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Advantages: Original instruments, classical greek myth
Disadvantages: Serious and tragic

...Two CD set: Orpheus and Euridice Awarded the Gramophone award in 2002, Orpheus and Euridice is a recording of Hadyn's last opera. It is an opera seria relating the tragic Greek myth. The opera was never performed in Haydn'd lifetime. The myth in a nutshell goes as follows. Eurydice, a nymph, is in despair as she contemplates her forthcoming marriage to Arideus. She is ready to die, but Orpheus saves her life by playing his harp and singing. Eurydice’s father, Creon, agrees to let her to marry Orpheus. When Eurydice is bitten by a snake and dies, Orpheus is inconsolable. He consults the Sibyl, who takes him to the underworld to search for her. Pluto allows Orpheus to search for Eurydice in the Elysian fields, but Orpheus is warned not to look at his wife. He cannot resist glancing at her, and loses her f