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ShareThe book that launched a movement: "Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks), proposing a historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity.The Creation is E.
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Wilson's most important work since the publications of Sociobiology and Biophilia.
Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, it is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet.
Yet while Carson was specifically concerned with insecticides and the ecological destruction of our natural resources, Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, attempts his new social revolution by bridging the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and science.
Like Carson, Wilson passionately concerned about the state of the world, draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either have gone or at least are fated for early extinction by the end of our present century.Astonishingly, The Creation is not a bitter, predictable rant against fundamentalist Christians or deniers of Darwin.
Rather, Wilson, a leading "secular humanist," draws upon his own rich background as a boy in Alabama who "took the waters," and seeks not to condemn this new generations of Christians but to address them on their own terms.
For more information about the title The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science) — Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural ... > read more
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives — What is the biological reason for gossip?For laughter? For the creation of art?Why do dogs have curly tails?What can microbes tell us about ... > read more
From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals) — A gorgeous gift and a landmark work that is an essential addition to everyone's personal library.Never before have the four great works of Charles ... > read more
Silent Spring — Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness ... > read moreRecommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
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