"Monism as Connecting Religion and Science" by Ernst Haeckel is a lecture transformed into a book that attempts to harmonize science and religion using monism, a belief in the unity of everything. Haeckel puts forward the scientific view that nature is connected and investigates how it can bring together tangible knowledge and spiritual views. In this book, he shares his monistic ideas, defending it against other concepts found in religious philosophies, as he believes all natural occurrences can be understood through science to show humanity as one with the universe. Haeckel examines evolution, laws of energy and matter, and even suggests a pantheistic view of God that suits scientific understanding. Ultimately, Haeckel says that monism respects nature and also offers a strong moral foundation for appreciating both fields of science and religion.
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science
By Ernst Haeckel
In a time of conflict between science and religion, one man tries to unite them through the idea that everything is connected.
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About the AuthorErnst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
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