Imitating Life
A review of “Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion,” edited by psychologist Scott Garrels.
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Re-reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution
Eric Beinhocker’s “The Origin of Wealth” offers exciting metaphors for rethinking Darwinism and evolutionary theory.
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Buddhism and Science for the Perplexed
Donald S. Lopez is interested not only in the “what happened” of the Buddhist encounter with science, but in the “how” and “why” of the various encounters.
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Pandemonium Tremendum: A Review
A review by Carl Keener of James E. Huchingson’s book Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press; ISBN 0-8298-1419-1; Paper; 224 pp.; $17.00; 2001). One of the biggest problems faced by humans everywhere is how to relate our human spirit to the rest of the universe. As Heidegger…
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Postdarwinism: The New Synthesis
A review of Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution, by Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer 2009). As a combatant in the evolution wars here in the United States and abroad, I have penned and processed quite a few papers on the interpretation of evolution.1 This means also reviewing the vast…
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Process Ecology in Process
A Review of Robert Ulanowicz’s Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin (Templeton Foundation Press, 2009). Reading Robert Ulanowicz’s book – A Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin – is a humbling experience. The breadth and depth of the disciplines that he brings to bear on these grand intellectual problems are impressive. His proses are powerful…
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Review of Holmes Rolston’s “Genes, Genesis, and God”
Holmes Rolston, III is a well-known philosopher who has written extensively on both the philosophy of religion and on philosophical issues to do with the environment. The book under review, Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History, started life as the Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh…
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Review of Delvin Lee Ratzsch’s “The Battle of Beginning”
The author wishes to clarify the confusions that exist on both sides of the creation-evolution debate.
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Review of Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson’s “Unto Others”
Last week Skeptic Senior Editor Frank Miele attended the Human Behavior and Evolution Society’s annual conference to cover it for the magazine. Miele reports that there was much discussion surrounding our recent publication of the debate on group selection and the evolution of altruism, featured in Vol 6, #4, the issue before last. The debate…
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From Quantum Mechanics to the Eucharistic Meal: John Polkinghorne’s ‘Bottom-up’ Vision of Science and Theology
As a scientist theologian, Polkinghorne has long wrestled with the topic of God’s action in the world. Interventionism or supernaturalism is dismissed, in favor of a concept of “pure information.”