Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much–celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today.” —The Washington Post

In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative s...