Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home

This is a dry, technical and well documented book/research about all the things that happened on planet earth to support life. Not only just any life but the author makes a strong claim that through the ages , on each singular event (Ice age, Cambrian explosion, etc.) the planet happened to be in the best possible state to support the most amount of life.

The main thesis here is that there are just too many things that needed to happen in order for life to even exist, and that improbability is a strong argument of a Creator.

I like that the book is significantly different than other books with a theistic point of view. Here the author paired with a biochemist try his best to give the readers with a high amount of peer reviewed papers on the origins of life and the evolution of the planet. It has almost 40 of 288 pages only for footnotes.