Author: E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson is the Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus in Entomology at Harvard University and a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. An author of many books, he has won the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions, for the books On Human Nature (Harvard, 1978) and The Ants (with Bert Holldobler, Harvard 1991). This article is excerpted from E.O. Wilson’s The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (©2006 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.).
Denial and Its Risks: A Secular Humanist Addresses a Thoughtful Pastor
Dear Pastor, what I fear most is the pervasive combination of religious and secular ideology of a kind that sees little or no harm in the destruction of the Creation. The following speech might be given by the visionary who ranks biodiversity of little account and sees humanity ascending profitably away from and not to …