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Title: Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution by John F. Haught, John Haught ISBN: 0-8133-6590-2 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: FLAWED BUT AMAZINGLY INTERESTING
Comment: This is one of the most annoyingly schizophrenic books I have ever read.
The author launches off into many wonderful attacks against literalism then employs literalism himself! The author points out the problems of metaphysics and especially the problems we encounter when we are not able to put off "metaphysical gratification" then lapses into his own brand of feeble metaphysics, the idea that there is "in fact" inexhaustible "depth" to the universe or that the Cosmos is "narrative to the core."
I believe the author gets pulled off course because his personal agenda requires conclusions that his arguments do not allow him to reach, so he leaps. In fact, to some extent this book is a fascinating record of a learned mind veering away from its own awesome conclusions. I do not use the word "awesome" lightly. Indeed, I think the book's strengths far, far outweigh its weaknesses. The attacks on literalism and metaphysics (though undercut) are highly inspirational and informative, the straining toward a new view of religion essential, the attack on scientific literalism necessary.
This book does not heal the rift between science and religion as much as it shows the width and depth of a chasm that continues to open. With all its flaws, "Deeper Than Darwin" is an engrossing and important book that should be read and reread by anyone interested in religion, science or philosophy.
Rating: 5
Summary: God survives Darwinism
Comment: John Haught has no problem reconciling his religious beliefs with evolution. He argues that evolution, and all science, only goes so deep in explaining the world. He points out his objection to scientists, such as Dawkins, using evolution as a weapon to promote their own atheistic beliefs. He sees this as science overstepping it's bounds and becoming a religion of it's own. I am an evolutionist, butI agree with him here.
He also takes strict creationists and "intelligent designers" to task for trying to recast their religious beliefs as science. The "God of the Gaps" approach of taking anything currently under debate in the scientific community as evidence of evolution being wrong, and therefore creationism or intelligent design being right, ultimately will backfire as science progresses to fill in the gaps. He sees this as poor reasoning, since science isn't done yet.
But Haught goes on to say that untimately science cannot provide the final answers or final truth, and this is where religion can step in and reach deeper. I agree with this; science can only explain so much and religion has plenty to explain after that.
All in all, a very positive book that presents a "middle way" in the current evo-creation debate. Science and religion are compatible if the two side will recognize where science ends and religion begins.
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Title: Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution by John F. Haught ISBN: 0809139898 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution by John F. Haught ISBN: 0813338786 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: A People Adrift : The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America by Peter Steinfels ISBN: 0684836637 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Who Is Jesus?: An Introduction to Christology by Thomas P. Rausch ISBN: 0814650783 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Bridging Science and Religion by Ted Peters, Gaymon Bennett ISBN: 0800636252 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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