false 1560957 53 male Dallas, TX 09/2008 08/2009 5 2 2 true 6215700 read 0 true 3449697 currently-reading 0 true 3449696 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38942958 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222469742s/163653.jpg 1560957 Paul Wright http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1560957-paul-wright Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:00:00 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38943074 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176404323s/621687.jpg 1560957 Paul Wright http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1560957-paul-wright Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:20:53 -0700 A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Paperback) by Julian Barnes]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58931568 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ee5hcCzDL._SL75_.jpg 1560957 Paul Wright http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1560957-paul-wright Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:09:19 -0700
Noah in this telling is a little like the Mel Brooks Moses who was given fifteen . . . whoops . . . ten commandments. Here Noah loses most of his flotilla and a good part of the animal kingdom:
...more...]]> Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (Philosophy in Action) by Philip Kitcher]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44235920 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173337089s/275824.jpg 1560957 Paul Wright http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1560957-paul-wright Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:26:15 -0800
Advocates of the latest iteration of anti-Darwinism, Intelligent Design (in a clever double entendre the autho...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/98464-intelligent-design http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173337089s/275824.jpg 1560957 Paul Wright http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1560957-paul-wright Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:17:25 -0800
Advocates of the latest iteration of anti-Darwinism, Intelligent Design (in a clever double entendre the author calls its advocates "resurrection men"), have no positive doctrines and thus provide no explanations. They have not advanced, when you examine their claims, beyond novelty creationism and that was delared dead generations ago.

This book's last chapter, "A Mess of Pottage," is a sympathetic (the author was a disappointment to his own pious mother) consideration of the crisis of faith that believers encounter, why many of them rightly resist the implications of natural selection. And you don't find that very often in a Darwinist. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36240628 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255682270s/21.jpg 1560957 Paul Wright http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1560957-paul-wright Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:43:56 -0800
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