title: Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science
author: Connie Barlow
description: We enter our houses of worship in search of meaning and understanding, but can we include the halls of academe and scientific laboratories as additional sources of inspiration? Science writer Barlow gives us an enthusiastic Yes! She builds her book on conversations with biologists, ecologists, and religious scholars, who argue in groups and individually for the appreciation of what leading socibiologist E.O. Wilson has coined as the "epic of evolution": the reading of creation and evolution as a spiritual text that calls us to care for our world and each other. Scientists are increasingly working with environmentalists, mainline Christian denominations, and others to call us to protect our planet. This book has the potential to be a key work for environmentalists and those interested in the relationship between science and religion. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries. [For another look at science and religion, see Marcelo Gleiser's The Dancing Universe, reviewed below.?Ed.]?Eric D. Albright, Duke Medical Ctr. Lib., Durham, N.C.<BR><I>-?Eric D. Albright, Duke Medical Ctr. Lib., Durham, N.C.</I><BR>Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  all the fish
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  for Jane
  
  with thanks
  
  to Rick and Heidi for the loan of their stable event
  
  to Mogens and Andy and all at Huntsham Court for a number of unstable events
  
  and especially to Sonny Metha for being stable through all events.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western
  spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
  
  Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly
  insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
  amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat
  idea.
  
  This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the
  people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were
  suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the
  movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it
  wasn't the s