【月界二手書店】Rocks of Ages：Science and Religion..._ Gould　〖宗教〗CAG

【書況補充說明】

 數頁螢光筆劃線痕跡

【出版日期】

 1999年

【內容簡介】

 The nation's leading exponent of Darwinian evolution disentangles the perennial tug-of-war between science and religion, expounding a simple principle allowing them to coexist productively

This writing addresses science and religion in the fullness of life. Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance.

Review:

Revered and eminently readable essayist Stephen Jay Gould has once again rendered the complex simple, this time mending the seeming split between the two "Rocks of Ages," science and religion. He quickly, and rightfully, admits that his thesis is not new, but one broadly accepted by many scientists and theologians. Gould begins by suggesting that Darwin has been misconstrued--that while some religious thinkers have used divinity to prove the impossibility of evolution, Darwin would have never done the reverse.

Gould eloquently lays out not "a merely diplomatic solution" to rectify the physical and metaphysical, but "a principled position on moral and intellectual grounds," central to which is the elegant concept of "non-overlapping magisteria." (Gould defines magisteria as a "four-bit" word meaning domain of authority in teaching.) Essentially, science and religion can't be unified, but neither should they be in conflict; each has its own discrete magisteria, the natural world belonging exclusively to science and the moral to religion.

Gould's argument is both lucid and convincing as he cites past religious and scientific greats (including a particularly touching section on Darwin himself). Regardless of your persuasions, religious or scientific, Gould holds up his end of the conversation with characteristic respect and intelligence. --Paul Hughes

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