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Anarchy evolution : faith, science, and bad religion in a world without God / Greg Graffin & Steve Olson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : ItBooks, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 290 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0061828505 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
  • 0061828513 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780061828508 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 9780061828515 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Other title:
  • Faith, science, and bad religion in a world without God
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Contents:
The problem with authority -- Making sense of life -- The false idol of natural selection -- The false idol of atheism -- Tragedy : the construction of a worldview -- Creativity, not creation -- Where faith belongs -- Believe wisely -- A meaningful afterlife.
Summary: Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also has a Ph.D. and teaches evolution at UCLA. Here, Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. As an adolescent growing up when "drugs, sex, and trouble could be had on any given night," Graffin discovered that the study of evolution provided a framework through which he could make sense of the world. In this provocative and personal book, Graffin describes his own coming of age as an artist, as well as the formation of his naturalist worldview on questions involving God, science, and human meaning. While the fight between religion and science is often displayed in the starkest of terms, Graffin provides fresh and nuanced insights into the long-standing debates about atheism and the human condition.--From publisher description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Take one man who rejects authority and religion, and leads a punk band. Take another man who wonders whether vertebrates arose in rivers or in the ocean....Put them together, what do you get? Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel



Anarchy Evolution is a provocative look at the collision between religion and science, by an author with unique authority: UCLA lecturer in Paleontology, and founding member of Bad Religion, Greg Graffin. Alongside science writer Steve Olson (whose Mapping Human History was a National Book Award finalist) Graffin delivers a powerful discussion sure to strike a chord with readers of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion or Christopher Hitchens God Is Not Great. Bad Religion die-hards, newer fans won over during the band's 30th Anniversary Tour, and anyone interested in this increasingly important debate should check out this treatise on science from the god of punk rock.

Includes bibliographical references.

The problem with authority -- Making sense of life -- The false idol of natural selection -- The false idol of atheism -- Tragedy : the construction of a worldview -- Creativity, not creation -- Where faith belongs -- Believe wisely -- A meaningful afterlife.

Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also has a Ph.D. and teaches evolution at UCLA. Here, Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. As an adolescent growing up when "drugs, sex, and trouble could be had on any given night," Graffin discovered that the study of evolution provided a framework through which he could make sense of the world. In this provocative and personal book, Graffin describes his own coming of age as an artist, as well as the formation of his naturalist worldview on questions involving God, science, and human meaning. While the fight between religion and science is often displayed in the starkest of terms, Graffin provides fresh and nuanced insights into the long-standing debates about atheism and the human condition.--From publisher description.

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