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Evolutionary Religion (Paperback)
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J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but
revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the
possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should
frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have begun to
adapt to a deep past-one measured in billions of years, not
thousands. But we have not really noticed how thin is the sliver of
past time in which all of our religious life is contained. And the
eons that may yet see intelligent life have hardly started to come
into focus. When these things are internalized, our whole picture
of religion may change. For then we will for the first time be in a
position to ask: Might there be a form of religion appropriate to
such an early stage of development as our own? Might such
'evolutionary religion' be rather different from the forms of
religion we see all around us today? And might it be better fitted
to meet the demands of reason? Though most concerned simply to get
a new discussion going, Evolutionary Religion maintains that the
answer is in each case 'yes'. When the light of deep time has fully
been switched on, a new form of skepticism but, at the same time,
new possibilities of religious life will come into view. We will
find ourselves drawn to religious attitudes that, while not
foregoing the idea of a transcendent ultimate, manage to do without
believing and without details. As Schellenberg reveals, pursuing
evolutionary religion instead of embracing a scientific naturalism
is something that can rationally be done, even if traditional
religious belief is placed out of bounds by argument. And
ironically it is science that should help us see this. Indeed, in a
new cultural dispensation evolutionary religion may come to be a
preferred option among those most concerned for our intellectual
enrichment and for our survival into the deep future.
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