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Article: George Levine, Darwin Loves You.(Book review)

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George Levine, Darwin Loves You

(Princeton University Press, 2007). xxvii + 304 $39.95.

Taking his title from the bumper-sticker tidings "Jesus Loves You," George Levine argues in Darwin Loves You that Darwin's celebration of a natural world with no religious significance offers a credible, comforting, and politically benign alternative to super-naturalist religion. He presents this Darwinian gospel as an effective antidote to the intellectual "disenchantment" that Max Weber found endemic in the modern world, resulting from, among other cultural causes, the assault of scientific rationalism on traditional religious beliefs. "Weber's narrative of ...

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