Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Good for historical perspective on the creation-evolution wars

This book comprehensively surveys the development of evolutionary ideas from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The book is sympathetic to the resistance these deeply pious thinkers felt to the implications of the most natural interpretations of what the data that they were collecting. The book is scholarly and not for those seeking a sound-bite.