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| The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth | 
| Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 435135
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9516
ASIN: B001717522
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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 Creation:Saving Planet Earth April 8, 2008
A very readable book written by a leading scientist. Wilson makes an effort to appeal to the conservative religious community by identifying his past association with it. He presents compelling reasons for his thesis that we need to work together to save the planet. He may well lose his religious audience when he declares his views about how the earth was created. Excellent book.
Excellent service! February 8, 2008
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 Fun read, and very informative January 10, 2008
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Not a lot to say other than I really enjoyed the book and it was a fun fast read.
 Commendable but unnecessary January 6, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is a plea for cooperation on environmental concerns between scientists and religious leaders. It is styled as a letter to a (presumably imaginary) Southern Baptist Pastor - apparently a reference to the pastors of Wilson's own Christian childhood - but this appears to be a gimmick which even the author soon tires of.
Wilson believes there should be cooperation between scientists and religious leaders on environmental issues. This is all very well, but I suspect that most people of my acquaintance would accept this without question. Is it really worth writing another book about?
I don't mean to trivialise Wilson's concern. I agree that ecological problems are extremely important, and that in the past they have been sorely neglected. As a matter of fact, I have spent a significant part of the last thirty years educating young people about the disastrous effects of habitat destruction and introduced species on environments, particularly the fragile environments of my own country.
Nor do I mean to imply that the book is useless. I admit that I had not really thought sufficiently about the problems of freshwater ecology before reading it, nor was I aware of the magnitude of the SLIMES (subterranean lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems).
However, I notice that a search on Amazon using the term "Ecology" reveals more than 140 000 books, and while I admit to being completely unfamiliar with well over 99.9% of these, most of those that I have looked at reveal at least some concerns similar to Wilson's. I can also say that in my experience, similar environmental concerns form a significant part of both Geography and Science curricula at primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
Wilson seems to imply that religious ministers should be as concerned about extinctions and endangered species as about theology. As an Australian Catholic, I have no experience with Southern Baptist pastors, but it is my observation that a great many religious ministers are already more worried about ecology than about their own subject. So I can see little point in this book being written.
As an aside, I wonder what would be the response if someone wrote a book arguing that ecologists should give more concern to theological problems.
A BEAUTIFUL CONSILIENCE December 10, 2007
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Biologist and humanist E. O. Wilson's use of the religious symbol of creation reminds us that it is a continuing process and not something that was completed in the first chapter of Genesis. His forging of an alliance between science and religion implements the theme of his earlier book "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge."
There is consilience in the way that science's "how" complements religion's "why." Wilson eloquently describes the beautiful harmony of contrasts evident in the multitude of species that occupy so many ecological niches. There is also a multitude of religious beliefs that provide meaning and purpose for the diversity of cultures and traditions. Wilson passionately pleads for the communities of religion and science to cooperate in saving our planet.
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