While he does gripe about some of the book, he winds up saying that it’s very good as an example of how to tackle “philosophical” questions with science, hoping that other theologians will emulate Craig’s efforts. The reviewer, Stephen Shaffner, is a computational biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT. It’s a long (a full page) review of theologian William Lane Craig’s new book on Adam and Eve, supposedly a “Biblical and scientific exploration,” according to the book’s title (see picture of book below).
In examining human behavior in the post-liberation world, Eberstadt provocatively asks: Is food the new sex? Is pornography the new tobacco? Adam and Eve after the Pill will change the way readers view the paradoxical impact of the sexual revolution on ideas, morals, and humanity itself.This is one of the most bizarre book reviews I’ve read in Science (or Nature).
Adam and Eve after the Pill examines as no book has before the seismic social changes caused by the sexual revolution. Her chapters range across academic disciplines and include supporting evidence from contemporary literature and music, women's studies, college memoirs, dietary guides, advertisements, television shows, and films. Anscombe and novelist Tom Wolfe and a host of feminists, food writers, musicians, and other voices from across today's popular culture, Eberstadt makes her contrarian case with an impressive array of evidence. Drawing on sociologists Pitirim Sorokin, Carle Zimmerman, and others philosopher G.E.M. But what has been the result? This ground-breaking book by noted essayist and author Mary Eberstadt contends that sexual freedom has paradoxically produced widespread discontent. Perhaps nothing has changed life for so many, so fast, as the severing of sex and procreation.
Secular and religious thinkers agree: the sexual revolution is one of the most important milestones in human history. Print Adam and Eve after the Pill - Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution
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