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by Anthony Bourdain
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by Stanley Kunitz
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by Khaled Hosseini
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by Jonah Goldberg
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by Dan Brown

The effect of, say, Christianity on the development and progress is extremely debatable. One could argue that the preservation of classical learning by monastics after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West was vital to the scientific enterprise. Certainly, the Christian belief in the goodness and intelligibility of visible and tangible creation may be seen as motivating scientific enterprise in the West, in contrast to non-Christian belief systems where the material world was seen as inherently illusory and somewhat evil. ]]> 17733289 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:05:30 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16611564 to: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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by Charles Taylor
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