Living Large in Nature

by Saner, Reg

• ISBN13: 9781935195085
• ISBN10: 1935195085
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Center for Amer Places Inc

Summary

InLiving Large in Nature, Reg Sanerregarded as one of America's greatest nature writersemploys his lucid and unpretentious style to offer his unique take on the fundamentalist advocates of creationism and intelligent design. Rather than combat fundamentalists with the latest research in evolutionary biology and cutting-edge astronomy, Saner interweaves a creative mix of memoir and intellectual critique to expose the irreligious and immoral aspects of militant creationism andby the endto offer instead his own worldview, an existence grounded in a reverence and respect for nature but free from religious dogma. Along the way readers meet the author as a five-year-old creationist, attend his laughable and losing debate with a creationist spokesman, learn the theological reason for deities on the ceiling, hike into the scriptural geology of the Grand Canyon, encounter creationism's relation to Pinocchio's nose, and receive satirical suggestions for a diety upgrade.

Author Biography

Reg Saner is the author of four books of poetry and three books of nonfiction, most recently The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World, which is also available from the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
A Challenge	p. 3
Born Again	p. 11
Ecotone Made of Words	p. 19
Not So Great Debate	p. 31
Deities on the Ceiling and the Theology of Up	p. 39
William Paley's Very Wonderful Watch	p. 47
The Darwinian Divinity Called Time	p. 51
Adam's Needful Navel	p. 57
The Geo-Theology of Down	p. 63
Arias and Atom Bombs	p. 71
Journey to the Center Place	p. 79
Pinocchio's Nose	p. 83
God Upgrade	p. 97
How It Is: The Real Surreal	p. 107
A Way of Being: Call That a Religion?	p. 115
Notes	p. 125
About the Author	p. 133
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