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This book examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it.
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Although, again, not with evolution per se - it is all too easy for people to be religious to believe that God uses natural selection as the process by which to ...
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In Evolution as a Religion, she examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it.
This book examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it.
Evolution as a religion

Evolution as a religion

Book by Mary Midgley
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According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark'. This book examines how science comes to be used as a... Google Books
Originally published: 1985
Author: Mary Midgley
Jun 2, 2020 · This paper considers Mary Midgley's views on evolution, especially as developed in her book Evolution as a Religion.
In this perspective, it becomes obvious that most of the great world religions—Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Animism, etc. are based on evolution.
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to ...
Evolution and Religion discusses some of the issues that are often referred to when evolution and religion are compared with each other.
No. Most religious people believe in evolution. The root of atheism is the lack of concrete evidence for the existence of a god.
Apr 28, 2014 · Midgley argues that they represent bad science, twisted to have characteristics of a religion, such as assigning meaning to life (pp. 15, 71).