Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

· Harper Collins
4.5
37 reviews
Ebook
308
Pages

About this ebook

Frompunk rock bandBad Religion’s Greg Graffin and Steve Olson, Anarchy Evolution is a provocative look at the collision between religion and science.

“Take one man who rejects authority and religion, and leads a punk band. Take another man who wonders whether vertebrates arose in rivers or in the ocean. . . . Put them together, what do you get? Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times–bestselling author Jared Diamond

From an author with unique authority: UCLA lecturer in Paleontology, and founding member of Bad Religion, Greg Graffin and award-winning science writer Steve Olson, Anarchy Evolution delivers a powerful discussion sure to strike a chord with readers of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion or Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great.

Anarchy Evolution sets out to draw connections between evolution, naturalist thought, and punk, an undertaking that may sound rife with the potential to be reachy—or preachy. But Graffin and Olson manage to weave the seemingly disparate concepts together into a satisfying narrative.” —LA Weekly

“Graffin is one of those rare people who seem to have combined two lives into one. He’s one of a small but growing number of atheists in the United States willing to talk about the damage they believe religion can do.” —Paste

Ratings and reviews

4.5
37 reviews
robert barnes
February 24, 2015
The book the music wow so in depth makes me proud to have followed a life like gregs just not famous lol worth reading and listening to his lyrics. They go hand in hand
1 person found this review helpful
A Google user
September 29, 2018
A really bad title and subtitle for a great book. A beautiful and thought-provoking memoir about Graffin's negative experiences with authority and attempts to be a better one himself.
2 people found this review helpful
A Google user
March 9, 2015
It's not all about his ideas on evolution, the book goes on tangents about his childhood and musical background
2 people found this review helpful

About the author

Gregory Walter Graffin (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American punk rock musician and college professor. He is most recognized as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the noted Los Angeles band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in 1979. Graffin double-majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to earn a master's degree in geology from UCLA and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He spends most of his time in Upstate New York, and teaches Life Science and Earth & Space Science (paleontology) at UCLA during one of the school quarters each year. Anarchy Eveolution is his first book. Steve Olson is an award-winning science writer, a consultant for the National Academy of Sciences, and the author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, a National Book Award finalist.

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