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Not that I was looking for concrete absolute answers but I wanted more than philosopher type conversations and theories about Darwinism, evolution, religion, and creationism that seems to lead to no real conclusion. It was just the author's view points and speculation. I felt it ultimately didn't say much of anything. This book did not hold my interest, although I did read until the end of the book I was not engaged in it. It felt like thought wandering, just mullin I won this book on Goodreads. I imagine this would make a good read for those familiar with his other works.more But ironically, his voice on the page is so British, I still want to check out is other stuff.
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It's pretty unexciting, and I don't feel I learned much. I get that this book is his own Lifetime Achievement Award, and he's mostly collecting his career's thoughts, but at just over two hundred pages, I still could barely finish it. Then, his writing musters the energy to engage the audience. But Ruse is pretty casual about tossing theological claims into the bin, to the point that he nearly seems disinterested in the topic altogether, until his boy Darwin is under attack. And I guess it's a clever title that it's not called The Meaning Of Life. We could possibly explain our desire for meaning through a Darwinism lens. There's no obstacle to having a meaning to life without god. Then, his writing muster I guess I agree with his overall points: without god, meaning is what we make it. I guess I agree with his overall points: without god, meaning is what we make it. Ruse argues that it is only by accepting our true nature - evolved over millennia - that humankind can truly find what is meaningful. Rather, meaning in the Darwinian age can be found if we turn to a kind of Darwinian existentialism, seeing our evolved human nature as the source of all meaning, both in the intellectual and social worlds. In A Meaning to Life, Michael Ruse argues that this is a false turn, and there is no real progress in the evolutionary process. Wilson, evolution is seen as progress - "from monad to man" - and that positive meaning is found in continuing and supporting this upwards path of life.
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Ruse explains that, in a tradition going back to the time of Darwin himself, and represented today by the evolutionist E. If God no longer exists-or if God no longer cares-rather than promoting a bleak nihilism, many Darwinians think we can convert Darwin into a form of secular humanism. The historian and philosopher of science Michael Ruse investigates this question, and wonders whether we can find a new meaning to life within Darwinian views of human nature. Ever since, with the rise of science and decline of religious belief, there has been growing interest - and growing doubt - about whether human life really does have meaning. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything-and the human organism was seen to be more machine than spirit. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything-and the Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god.