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Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God (Library ebook) Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God 1weJNizbu Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a Ms8yy3PnM World Without God xQsCp2mlC KF-20339 Qix8YbXEP USmix/Data/US-2011 TbDoJbtMW 5/5 From 602 Reviews 11XEUZ1ZF Greg Graffin, Steve Olson BWsgpOIbR ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook lptxPU3FG rOj2TkZuD g0PG7bXmS ZgCIIKQ4J YKtBW2yDk 3GRQT1Ag5 RfpOULlII 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great book for a specific Bg48NLUvZ audienceBy LorenI want to give it 5 stars since I found it enthralling and LpElBQppk couldn't put it down... BUT... it's definitely not going to be that appealing to LCso2gz4V everyone. If you happen to love science and thinking about the philosophies that 32toKHZwl it impacts, as well as being a fan of this generation of punk music... you will eeEhWce2b probably LOVE this book. Greg is a very concise writer and has a very DHYZpunlT interesting, though sometimes jarring, way of linking in punk and cultural tVrmKC3SS evolution with biological evolution. The autobiographical bits were fascinating l13Y72xwu as I grew up listening to these guys and reading their history was interesting, F4nN7jP5E especially due to the way that Greg intertwined how his love of science and 6p58vOE7T curiosity led to Bad Religion being what they are. As another review stated... it CVUv4YfeJ feels like reading two books in one: A review and critique of evolutionary UTHqT87sk science meshed with a biography of a punk band focused on it's singer. Well pbvO2PFVA done and highly recommended if you like Bad Religion and take interest in sC453Wwi8 science and the cultural impacts of both.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A thoughtful examination of how the world worksBy John MartinWhere is a confluence between punk rock and evolution? It is in the person of Greg Graffin, the leader of the legendary punk band Bad Religion who also has a Ph.D. in zoology and teaches evolution to college students. "Anarchy Evolution" is an enjoyable, engaging and thoughtful essay on science and religion, exploring them through the lens of Graffin's personal experiences and development both as a musician and as a scientist. Underlying it all -- both Graffin's music whose lyrics question deeply held and fundamental beliefs and whose scientists' skepticism informs all of his work -- is what Graffin calls a "congenital distaste for authority."The clear and evocative writing by Graffin and co-author Steve Olson (author of the National Book Award-nominated Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins) bring the reader into a conversation that gets at why people think as they do about the world around them -- and how they should think about that world in the face of incontrovertible science. Along the way, Graffin and Olson explore the many shades and varieties of belief and non-belief, and, unlike the recent spate of angry-atheist tracts, their book is not dismissive of those who see the work of a deity in everything around them, but rather makes the case that those beliefs cannot be squared with science and are not needed to explain the workings of the universe.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. entertaining and thought-provokingBy PhilI've been a fan of Bad Religion since the early 90's. I have purchased all their albums. So when Greg Graffin wrote a book, I decided to order it and see what he had to say and how he was saying it. I enjoyed reading the book. I found the biographical information was the most interesting. His writings on his life's little twist and turn and how things turned out had me contemplating on events in my life. I found the information on Evolutionary Biology thought provoking. Although I am myself a scientist and am quite familiar with the scientific method, the studying I did on evolution was limited to what was presented in High School Biology. Evolution made sense to me back then, but I was thankful to read a different and updated point of view on it along with a refresher in thoughts on the subject from someone to whom this is their main field of study. I don't think the presentation of Evolutionary Biology was oversimplified in this book. I didn't agree with some of the presentation of Physical and Chemical ideas, but that is because those are fields I deal with and I'm a bit picky on how those fields are presented.I found the book had a nice balance of biographical, philosophical, and scientific ideas.In summary, an entertaining and thought-provoking book that I'm glad I purchased and read. ldquo;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 oceanhellip;.Put them together, what do you get? Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book.rdquo; mdash;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 Religi ....
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