The idol of science.(The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion)(Book review)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Barr, Stephen M. | Copyright information

THE CREATION: A MEETING OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION by EDWARD O. WILSON W.W. Norton, 160 pages, $21.95

IF THERE IS a single word that sums up the life and work of Edward O. Wilson, it is naturalist. The dictionary defines a naturalist to be either "an expert in natural history; a person who makes a special study of plants or animals" or "a person who believes that only natural laws and forces operate in the world; a believer in philosophical naturalism," and Wilson is the pe...

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