09.14.09
Wright’s refusal to examine Axial Age explanation
U.S. author traces “evolution” of God
Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:03am By Ed Stoddard
Wright’s book is observing the sudden accelerated appearance of a new updated monotheism, as a result of the effect of the Axial Age. His refusal to look at this phenomenon to produce instead a bogus theory based on the theory of games is a last ditch effort to rescue scientism, and the result is rubbish.
DALLAS (Reuters Life!) – U.S. author Robert Wright traces the history of God and suggests that it might point to the unfolding of something divine, though perhaps not in the sense that most people of faith would envision.
In his new book “The Evolution of God,” he takes his readers on a journey through the spiritual beliefs of our ancestors to the development of the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The book has two convergent paths. One traces the material history of faith looking among other things at how “scriptural interpretation is obedient to facts on the ground.”
The other path is a more speculative one that Wright compares to Darwinian evolution and leads to the notion that our history has been one of moral progress, which suggests that something divine may be afoot.
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