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Also by John F. Haught:

Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution, May 2003
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God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, February 2001
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Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation, November 1995
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Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution
John F. Haught

Acknowledging that Darwinian biology has considerably deepened our understanding of life, John Haught argues that we should dig even deeper than Darwin - and that religious belief helps us do so.

Westview Press
May 2003
256 pages
ISBN: 0813365902
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Non-Fiction

In his acclaimed book God After Darwin, John Haught argued that religious belief is wholly compatible with evolutionary biology. Now, in Deeper Than Darwin, he advances his argument further by saying that religious belief is even more revealing about life than Darwinism.

Haught looks hard at the question of how, after Darwin, religions may plausibly claim to be bearers of truth and not just of meaning and adaptive consolation. While he assumes the fundamental correctness of evolutionary biology, he firmly rejects the non-scientific belief that evolutionary biology amounts to an adequate explanation of living phenomena. Even though Darwinism is illuminating, Haught argues, it by no means tells us everything we need to know about life, even in principle. To find the deepest, though certainly not the clearest, understandings of life and the universe, we may still profitably consult the religions of the world. Deeper Than Darwin takes up where God After Darwin left off, arguing that Darwin's vision is important and essentially correct but that we can still dig deeper in our understanding of what is going on in the life- story.

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