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election and the Descent of Man (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1972), p. 139. I.E.O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975). "Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976). "John Cacioppo, "Loneliness: Conceptualization," (In press),

s Confessions . 6 But the most dramatic example of a religious EFTA_R1_01522117 EFTA02444880 Page 133 humanism that spread simultaneously into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be found when the lost texts of Aristotle were discovered, translated, and appropriated by scholars from these three

ress, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1959). I have in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White

t in modem theories about the very nature of religion." Modem objections to anthropomorphism have taken two major forms. First, traditions within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have long opposed the worship of "idols," and regarded anthropomorphism as a dangerous assault against genuine piety and

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ept in modern theories about the very nature of religion.” Modern objections to anthropomorphism have taken two major forms. First, traditions within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have long opposed the worship of “idols,” and regarded anthropomorphism as a dangerous assault against genuine piety and pro