The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin

The Book The Selfless Gene by Charles Foster shouldn’t need to be written in a world as modern as ours. Foster took on quite a bit in this book on evolution, creationism, and how they might interact on the world stage. This is no small task as many books written by Strobel and others make it seem like an “either/or” picture.

Foster does a great job of showing that things are not so black and white in the realm of creationism and evolution. In the preface, Foster speaks of the numerous and well funded campaigns that fundamentalist Christians have undertaken to try and disprove evolution and the relative success of Richard Dawkins as the crusader against these these war cries. The book does an excellent job of showing that these ploys are, more or less, designed to make money on expensive books, videos, and other merchandise.

I would highly recommend this book as an beginners guide when studying evolution and creationism. If you have already studied a bit of theology or know a bit about evolution, this book is basically rehashing of the basic points of theology and science. It is intended for the general public who may not already have this basic knowledge.