By Loyal D. Rue
In a compelling learn for somebody attracted to the place we got here from and the place we are going, Everybody's tale bargains a thrilling journey of traditional heritage that illuminates the evolution of topic, existence, and cognizance. As outdated myths, non secular tales, and different shared narratives of humankind are more and more seen as intellectually incredible and morally inappropriate, they turn into much less more likely to satisfy their unique purpose-to provide humans solutions and supply a feeling of balance and peace in way of life. dependable Rue restores that imbalance with a brand new tale in keeping with truth. Rue, writer of a brand new York instances outstanding ebook of 1994, by means of the Grace of Guile: The position of Deception in ordinary historical past in Human Affairs, now offers an evolutionary journey recounting our shared "epic of evolution"
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To act on what we know requires that we also feel. My Sunday school teachers did not merely inform us about Bible storiesthey told the stories to educate our emotional lives as well, to engage our affections that we might serve the enduring promise. This book shares their view that we will not serve what we do not love. And we cannot love what we do not know. The story told here is therefore an invitation to know and to love the fifteen-billion-year-old process that has blessed us with the lives we have.
To justify religious epics, the two connate properties of human nature, the narrative and spiritual drives, have always served to divide humanity. They create a terrible dilemma: How are we to satisfy them, even enrich them, without the continuance of falsehoods that promote divisiveness and conflict? Is there a way to evolve a great epic that is at once universal, spiritually satisfying, and, above all, truthful? The quest for such an epic is the subject of Everybody's Story. Loyal Rue's argument is as bold as it is brief: The way to achieve an epic that unites humanity spiritually, instead of cleaving it, is to compose it from the best empirical knowledge that science and history can provide of the real human story.
Wilson. Cm. (Suny Series In Philosophy And Biology) Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Paper). Ethics, Evolutionary. Series. 7Dc21 99-13703 Cip 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page v To Marilyn, Carl, Anna, and Elena, without whom I would have less care for the future Page vii CONTENTS Foreword by Edward O. Wilson ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Part I: How Things Are 45 1. The Organization of Matter 53 2. The Organization of Life 65 3. The Organization of Consciousness 81 Part II: Which Things Matter 97 4.