Title: A Weak Unoriginal Apology for the Status Quo
Product review: Other than its thin sprikling of brief anecdotes about the history of science and technology, this book is pretty much empty of content. Most of the ideas considered have been lifted from dead science fiction writers (notably Olaf Stapledon). Freeman Dyson totally caves in to organized religion, and even repeats the often-heard canard that Western Civilization would have been impossible without Christianity and the Bible. The latter thesis is patently absurd. One need only consider the contributions of the civilizations of Greece and Rome. Neither one of which, as far as I know, rested on religious beliefs erected about the bizarre spectacle of a crucified Jew who was somehow also a god.
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