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Science
Vol. 314 no. 5804 pp. 1392-1393
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135704
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ENVIRONMENT AND RELIGION

Hoping to Establish Common Ground for Saving Biodiversity

  1. Steven Bouma-Prediger*
  1. The reviewer is at the Department of Religion, Hope College, 126 East 10th Street, Holland, MI 49423, USA. E-mail: boumapred{at}webmail.hope.edu

Summary

The Creation. An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. By Edward O. Wilson. Norton, New York, 2006. 185 pp. $21.95, C$27.50. ISBN 0-393-06217-1.

Constructing the book as a letter to an imagined Southern Baptist preacher, the author seeks to ally religion and science in an ethic of "honorable" self-restraint toward the natural world.