The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by Edward O. Wilson
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Author: Edward O. WilsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2006-09-05
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Book Review: "Why Can't We All Just Get Along...."
Summary: 3 Stars
A noble effort on the part of the noted E.O. Wilson to find common ground where we can, not only "get along" as Rodney King so eloquently (and truthfully) said, but find a way to save life on this planet.
Written in a unique, interesting and pleasing way, as a letter to a fundamentalist preacher (Baptist, most likely), Wilson asks, even begs the preacher to put aside their differences on how life came to be (God or Evolution), and emphasize those areas where they can get along and where the world critically needs us to get along--saving life on this planet.
Then question then, is now how did life begin, but what are we going to do with it. What are we, mankind of today, going to do with what's left of Eden, the creation?
Right now, we are destroying it, and Wilson helps us, and the preacher (whom we never hear from) understand the rate and consequences of our destruction. In doing so, he helps understand the depth and "smallness" of life on earth and how the smallest, most unknown, microbe might be essential for life as we know it for larger mammals including humans.
The term "narrow film of life on the crust of the earth" is especially striking, referring, of course, to the thin layer of life spread aross the surface the globe. It is a delicate thing, this thing called life, and no matter how we think or believe it came to be, all of us have a need to perpetuate, not destroy, it.
The book probably deserves a four-star or five-star rating, but a section in the middle, "Teaching the Creation" takes away from the overall quality, tension and flow of the story. Certainly a five-star on the basics of what is presented and how it is presented.
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