Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution

Haught, John F.

ISBN 10: 0813365902 / ISBN 13: 9780813365909

Published by Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 2003

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8vo, 214 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution
• Publisher: Westview Press, Boulder, CO
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813365902
• ISBN 13: 9780813365909
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biology

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Synopsis

In his acclaimed book God After Darwin , John Haught argued that religious belief is wholly compatible with evolutionary biology. Now, in Deeper Than Darwin , he advances his argument further by saying that religious belief is even more revealing about life than Darwinism. 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 non-scientific 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 takes up where God After Darwin left off, arguing 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.

About the Author

John F. Haught is professor at Georgetown University and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.