Title: Berry's Wrong
Product review: (eds: can I soften my already posted review which is too harsh? thnks, tb)This good-hearted but wrong-headed book attacks not just the excesses of science but the very principles of scientific inquiry, secularism and the Enlightenment which Wilson celebrates in CONSILIENCE. Plus Berry gets it wrong. His argument that we diminish life by trying to comprehend it slips ominously toward creationism (though he never uses the word) as he exalts "faith" and calls science reductive and mechanical. Not so. It is in fact the physiochemical basis of consciousness that is the "miracle," and it is Wilson who gives us a true sense of place--the deep history of our epigenetic origins. We are made out of meat. Berry's a fine poet but there's more petulance than vision here.
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