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• Science, Politics, and Gnosticism: An Essay on Late Modernity by Eric Voegelin
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• The Restitution of Man by Michael D. Aeschliman
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  A trained philosopher and intellectual historian as well as a writer of genius, C. S. Lewis was one of the most lucid, profound, and eloquent critics of the reductive scientific materialism that has helped make the twentieth century so destructive…

• A Students Guide to Natural Science by Stephen M. Barr
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  Physicist Stephen M. Barr's lucid Student's Guide to Natural Science aims to give students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on…

• Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing by William A. Dembski
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  Recent years have seen the rise to prominence of ever more sophisticated philosophical and scientific critiques of the ideas marketed under the name of Darwinism. In Uncommon Dissent, mathematician and philosopher William A. Dembski brings together essays by leading intellectuals…

• The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis by Susan M. Felch and Paul C. Vitz
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  The peculiar dilemma of the self in our era has been noted by a wide range of writers, even as they have emphasized different aspects of that dilemma, such as the self's alienation, disorientation, inflation, or fragmentation. In The Self…

• The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion, And the Future of Democracy by Carson Holloway
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  The common assumption that Darwinism and conservatism are mutually inconsistent is now fiercely debated on the right. A number of conservative thinkers argue that evolutionary biology can replace religion as the source of morality while scientifically confirming conservative public policy.…

• Patterns or Principles by Stanley L. Jaki
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  In this groundbreaking book, Temptleton Prize-winning author Stanley L. Jaki demonstrates that in matters of religion, and science, all is not "relative." Chapters include, "Socrates, or the Baby and the Bathwater," "Determinism and Reality," "Science: Western or What?," and Medieval…

• Stuck With Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future by Peter Augustine Lawler
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  Cloning, gene therapy, stem-cell harvesting-are we on the path to a Huxley-like Brave New World? Not really, argues political philosopher and Kass Commission member Peter Augustine Lawler in Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future, even as…

• Nature's End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics by Richard Sherlock
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  The Western moral tradition has been profoundly influenced by attempts to ground moral convictions in an analysis of human nature, whether conceived in rational, emotional, or biological terms. This idea that nature is the ultimate standard of our actions is…