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THE GOD PROJECT.(Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon)(Book review)
Scientists have championed an astonishing variety of views on religion, ranging from the outright hostile to the deeply devout. Even among evolutionary biologists, whose views might seem the most predictable, matters have been surprisingly complex. Richard Dawkins, the author of "The Selfish Gene" and many other popular books on evolution, has in recent years become something of a professional atheist, arguing that "faith is one of the world's great evils." The late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, on the other hand, argued in his book "Rocks of Ages" that science and religion can and should coexist. Science has its proper domain of activity, religion has its domain, and ...
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