In In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan proposes a radical new approach to diet: ignore everything you’ve ever heard about scientific nutrition, and just build a diet of only non-processed foods, with little or no meat. This advice is summed up in a short, pleasing slogan: “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.” And you [...]
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In Defense of Food Isn’t About Nutrition (a review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 17, 2009
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Review: Finding Darwin’s God
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 10, 2009
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Let me say this first: Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read on the relationship between science and religion. The one-half of the book dedicated to defending evolution and debunking various strains of creationism is as good or better than what you’d find in books dedicated solely [...]
John Lennox: Closet creationist charlatan (a review of God’s Undertaker)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 8, 2009
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Superficially, John C. Lennox’s book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? looks like another “Science and Religion can get along” book, along the lines of Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God (which I’m going to try to review tomorrow). Nothing on the back cover suggests anything else, not the book description nor the blurbs. Same goes [...]
I think I’m going to have to read Robert Wright
Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 20, 2009
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Via The Colgate Twins, I discover that Jerry Coyne reviewed Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God and now Wright is complaining that Coyne misrepresented his views. I had previously seen Wright’s book at a Borders, looked at it in part because I mistakenly thought I had read something else by him, and then realized the [...]
Review: The Four Hour Work Week
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 16, 2009
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Back in September, I read a book called The Four Hour Work Week, which I mentioned here. Roughly, the message of the book is: