The creation : an appeal to save life on earth
Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet. Wilson attempts to bridge the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and science. Passionately concerned about the state of the world, he draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either have gone or at least are fated for early extinction by the end of our present century. This is not a bitter, predictable rant against fundamentalist Christians or deniers of Darwin; rather, Wilson, a leading "secular humanist," draws upon his own rich background as a boy in Alabama who "took the waters," and seeks not to condemn this new generation of Christians but to address them on their own terms.--From publisher description
viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780393062175, 9780393330489, 0393062171, 0393330486
69241402
pt. 1. The creation
Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation
Ascending to nature
What is nature?
Why care?
Alien invaders from Planet Earth
Two magnificent animals
Wild nature and human nature
pt. 2. Decline and redemption
The pauperization of earth
Denial and its risks
End game
pt. 3. What science has learned
Biology is the study of nature
The fundamental laws of biology
Exploration of a little-known planet
pt. 4. Teaching the creation
How to learn biology and how to teach it
How to raise a naturalist
Citizen science
pt. 5. Reaching across
An alliance for life