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Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
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Science -- Philosophy -- Essays.
Science -- Essays.
Biologists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Ethologists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Atheists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Science -- Philosophy.
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Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Science -- Philosophy -- Essays.
Science -- Essays.
Biologists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Ethologists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Atheists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Science -- Philosophy.
MARC Display
Science
in the
soul
:
selected
writings
of a
passionate
rationalist
/ Richard Dawkins ; edited by Gillian Somerscales.
by
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Random House, 2017.
Call #:
500 D271s
Subjects
Science
-- Philosophy -- Essays.
Science
-- Essays.
Biologists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Ethologists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Atheists -- Great Britain -- Essays.
Science
-- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780399592249 (hc.)
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
438 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-427) and index.
Contents:
Author's introduction -- I. The value(s) of
science
. The values of
science
and the
science
of values -- Speaking up for
science
: an open letter to Prince Charles --
Science
and sensibility -- Dolittle and Darwin -- II. All its merciless glory. "More Darwinian than Darwin" : the Darwin-Wallace papers -- Universal Darwinism -- An ecology of replicators -- Twelve misunderstandings of kin selection -- III. Future conditional. Net gain -- Intelligent aliens -- Searching under the lamp-post -- Fifty years on : killing the
soul
? -- IV. Mind control, mischief and muddle. The 'Alabama insert' -- The guided missiles of 9/11 -- The theology of the tsunami -- Merry Christmas, Prime Minister! -- The
science
of religion -- Is
science
a religion? -- Atheists for Jesus -- V. Living in the real world. The dead hand of Plato -- 'Beyond reasonable doubt'? -- But can they suffer? -- I love fireworks, but... -- Who would rally against reason? -- In praise of subtitles; or, a drubbing for dubbing -- If I ruled the world... -- VI. The sacred truth of nature. About time -- The giant tortoise's tale : islands withing islands -- The sea turtle's tale : there and back again (and again?) -- Farewell to a digerati dreamer -- VII. Laughing at live dragons. Fundraising for faith -- The Great Bus Mystery -- Jarvis and the Family Tree -- Gerin Oil -- Sage elder statesman of the dinosaur fancy -- Athorism : let's hope it's a lasting vogue -- Dawkins' laws -- VIII. No man is an island. Memories of a maestro -- O my beloved father : John Dawkins, 1915-2010 -- More than my uncle : A.F. 'Bill' Dawkins, 1916-2009 -- Honouring Hitch.
Summary:
"From the author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and
passionate
defense of
science
and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard Dawkins has been the world's most brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic.
Science
in the
Soul
brings together forty-two essays, polemics, and paeans--all written with Dawkins's characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world. Though it spans three decades, this book couldn't be more timely or more urgent. Elected officials have opened the floodgates to prejudices that have for half a century been unacceptable or at least undercover. In a
passionate
introduction, Dawkins calls on us to insist that reason take center stage and that gut feelings, even when they don't represent the stirred dark waters of xenophobia, misogyny, or other blind prejudice, should stay out of the voting booth. And in the essays themselves, newly annotated by the author, he investigates a number of issues, including the importance of empirical evidence, and decries bad
science
, religion in the schools, and climate-change deniers. Dawkins has equal ardor for "the sacred truth of nature" and renders here with typical virtuosity the glories and complexities of the natural world. Woven into an exploration of the vastness of geological time, for instance, is the peculiar history of the giant tortoises and the sea turtles--whose journeys between water and land tell us a deeper story about evolution. At this moment, when so many highly placed people still question the fact of evolution, Dawkins asks what Darwin would make of his own legacy--"a mixture of exhilaration and exasperation"--and celebrates
science
as possessing many of religion's virtues--"explanation, consolation, and uplift"--without its detriments of superstition and prejudice. In a world grown irrational and hostile to facts,
Science
in the
Soul
is an essential collection by an indispensable author"--Provided by publisher.
Other authors:
Somerscales, Gillian.
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