The Evolution of God (Back Bay Readers' Pick)

Please read Robert Wright's book "The Evolution of God". A good book that monotheism is the product of the process of increasing social and economic ties. A good sociological interpretation of economic and political reasons for the emergence of monotheism. In a sense, I thought it was better than the book by Karen Armstrong. Because I tried to explain this evolution, not only to explain it.

This book first reveals many new aspects of religion I am not used to. It allows me to talk to the original culture from famous anthropologist E. B. Taylor Wright's book also has an attractive description of the emergence of Judaism monotheism from monotheistic thinking. This book is a surprisingly positive evaluation of Islam as a contemporary religion.

In general, this book thinks that human divine understanding will develop from a specific (divinity's god) to the general (human), from irrational (all things) to rationality. As a human being from primitive society to modern society (God is the logic of the world). This is a very Hegelian argument, but on the surface it is a materialistic epistemology (in my opinion, a positive evolution of morality is somewhat outstanding).

What is most fascinated by me is the role of philosophy tool Philo. Philo became a great religious and secular philosopher because he succeeded in combining Greek monotheistic concepts and monotheism. Before reading this book, I had never put Philo in the best position in the history of philosophy. However, through this book, he stands on other people, acts as a philosopher, and plays an important role in the integration of religion and philosophy.

Elderidge, Evolution of Niles Evolution (WH Freeman, New York, 1998). I read this article in March 1999. Niles Elderidge picked out where he departed from "Reshaping Darwin" and "Fossils: Evolution and Extinction of Species" and let the readers explore the evolutionary history. I like this book very much. He began to acknowledge what he was thinking as to whether Richard Dawkins truly understood the evolution of his "selfish rage" theory. "My god, Richard Dawkins must be right," he said loudly on the first page. But soon he calmly took a deep breath and saw the whole picture. (I believe that evolution does not always happen, persuasively.) In fact, the species is fairly stable and environmental events not only destroy species but also destroy the entire ecosystem It will last millions of years. Is the same. (Link to Amazon.com comment)

Evolution of theology, theology of evolution, evolution theory of creation, or evolution theory guided by theology agrees that religious doctrine is consistent with the scientific understanding and biological evolution of modern God. The evolution of theology itself is not a scientific theory, it is a series of ideas on how general evolutionary science relates to religious beliefs, in contrast to specific creative views. Advocates of theological evolution theory often match evolutionist ideas with God's beliefs and refuse contradictory arguments about religious-science relations - they contradict each other's scientific theories of religious doctrine of creation and evolution theory I do not need it.