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Deeper Than Darwin List
Price: $26.00 The point of this book is to dig deeper than Darwin. Acknowledging that Darwinian
biology has considerably deepened our understanding of life, John Haught argues
that we should dig even deeper—and that religious belief helps us do so.
Haught states that he wants to question the nonscientific belief that evolutionary
biology amounts to an adequate explanation of living phenomena. Haught looks
hard at the question of how, after Darwin, religions may plausibly claim to
be bearers of truth and not just of meaning and adaptive consolation. While
he assumes
the fundamental correctness of evolutionary biology, he firmly rejects the
nonscientific belief that evolutionary biology amounts to an adequate explanation
of living
phenomena. Even though Darwinism is illuminating, Haught argues, it by no means
tells us everything we need to know about life, even in principle. To find
the deepest, though certainly not the clearest, understandings of life and
the universe,
we may still profitably consult the religions of the world. Deeper Than
Darwin argues that Darwin’s vision is important and essentially correct but
that we can still dig deeper in our understanding of what is going on in the
life-story. Book
of Distinction: 2004 John F. Haught, Ph.D., is the Landegger Distinguished Professor at Georgetown
University and member of the theology faculty. Dr. Haught is the founding director
of its Center for the Study of Science and Religion. He is the author of more
than fifty articles and book chapters and has published ten books, including:
The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose (1993) and Science and Religion:
From Conflict to Conversation (1995), and his latest volume, God After Darwin:
A Theology of Evolution (1999). Dr. Haught is the editor of a new book of essays,
Science and Religion in Quest of Cosmic Purpose, which will be published by Georgetown
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