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The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer

by John Gerard

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Gerard argues that science’s most dangerous enemies are not those who would stifle it but those who claim for it a philosophy beyond its scope. He examines reason and science, the idea and the so-called law of evolution, and the arithmetic of natural selection, contending that materialism cannot answer the old riddle of life and mind.

A thoughtful Catholic response to Haeckel and the scientific materialism of 1900. Download the free EPUB.

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