Category: Reviews
Life Without God: A Guide to Fulfillment Without Religion
Life Without God: A Guide to Fulfillment Without Religion, by Nicolaos S. Tzannes (Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, 2002, ISBN 1-59129-769-1) 157 pp. Paper $19.95. Nicolaos Tzannes teaches electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida, where he chaired the department from 1986 to 1994. In Life Without God, he has “put together a unified theory—a useful …
Denying Evolution
Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science, by Massimo Pigliucci (Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates Inc., 2002, ISBN 0-87893-659-9) 275 pp., Paperback $24.95. Denying Evolution is a great book and Massimo Pigliucci’s finest work to date. The reader might be forgiven for asking, Why yet another book on the evolution-creationism controversy? In the words …
When Religion Becomes Evil
When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball (San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0-06–050653-9) 240 pp., including Notes and Selected Bibliography. Cloth $21.95. It seems to come as a perennial surprise to many that religious faith gives rise to terrible beliefs and acts. The lessons of human history do not seem to dispel the widely …
How to Be an Atheist
How to Be an Atheist: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge 12 October 2001, by Denys Turner (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0 521 52632) 39 pp. Paper $12. This book presents Denys Turner’s inaugural lecture upon becoming Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. It is of interest …
Sacred Choices
Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions, by Daniel C. Maguire (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2001, ISBN 080063433) 160 pp., including Index. Paper $13. In Sacred Choices Daniel C. Maguire, who teaches ethics in the theology department of Marquette University, gives a very optimistic view of attitudes toward abortion by …
Unmarried to Each Other
Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple, by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller (New York: Marlowe and Company, 2002, ISBN 1-56924–566-5) 320 pp. Paper $15.95. The trouble started when Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller moved in together. First Solot couldn’t get Miller on her workplace’s health insurance because …