The Creation – A Meeting of Science and Religion: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth - Hardcover

Wilson, Edward O

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393062171 ISBN 13: 9780393062175

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

In this daring work, E.O. Wilson proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. The book is written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist Minister with personal anecdotes from Wilson's life. "Pastor, we need your help. The Creation - living Nature - is in deep trouble. Scientists estimate that if habitat conversion and other destructive human activities continue at their present rates half the species of plants and animals on Earth could be either gone or at least fated for early extinction by the end of the century...The ongoing extinction rate is by the most conservative estimates to be about a hundred times above that prevailing before humans appeared on Earth, and is expected to rise to at least a thousand times greater in the next decades." Despite the gloom of our times, "The Creation" offers a ray of hope in the meeting of science and religion.

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Review:

Beautiful and passionate. -- David B. Williams

The wise and lovely work of a truly learned man.--Matthew Scully

Beautiful and passionate.--David B. Williams

Beautiful and passionate. --David B. Williams

The wise and lovely work of a truly learned man. --Matthew Scully"

Beautiful and passionate. --David B. Williams"

If humankind finds a way to live in peace together, and in harmony with nature, E. O. Wilson will have played a unique role in that deliverance.--Jeffrey Sachs

One of our greatest thinkers says we can only rescue the earth by starting with its smallest inhabitants. ... Read this book.

Rarely has the divide between secular science and revealed religion been bridged so gracefully.--Robert Lee Holtz

A contemporary jeremiad ... at times searing, at times soaring.--Tom Levinson

About the Author:

E.O. WILSON, a Harvard professor for nearly five decades, has conducted field research throughout the world and written more than twenty books. His awards include two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Medal of Science.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393062171
• ISBN 13: 9780393062175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160