The creation : a meeting of science and religion / Edward O. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Edward O.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Creation.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 178 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Advance reading copy.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [2006]

Summary:

In his daring work, Wilson states that Nature is a universal value--one that serves without discrimination the interests of all humanity--and proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity.

Contents:

I The Creation

1 Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation 3

2 Ascending to Nature 9

3 What Is Nature? 15

4 Why Care? 26

5 Alien Invaders from Planet Earth 37

6 Two Magnificent Animals 55

7 Wild Nature and Human Nature 62

II Decline and Redemption

8 The Pauperization of Earth 73

9 Denial and Its Risks 82

10 End Game 91

III What Science Has Learned

11 Biology Is the Study of Nature 103

12 The Fundamental Laws of Biology 110

13 Exploration of a Little-Known Planet 116

IV Teaching the Creation

14 How to Learn Biology and How to Teach It 127

15 How to Raise a Naturalist 139

16 Citizen Science 148

V Reaching Across

17 An Alliance for Life 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

920867314