Nature
“In every true searcher of Nature
there is a kind of religious reverence.”
Albert Einstein
The evolution of the universe and the evolution of life provision the religious naturalist with a wondrous grand narrative.
The 13.8-billion-year saga includes the generation of our star and our planet ~4.6 billion years ago and our species ~150,000 years ago. All of modern life shares a common chemistry and a common ancestry, and inhabits countless interdependent ecosystems.
Offered below are links to books, videos, and websites that present accessible accounts of our current science-based understandings of the natural world.
If you have suggestions of additional materials, please contact us at: RNAcomments@gmail.com.
Books
Cosmology and Physics
Earth history
| Annals of the Former World |
| Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth |
| The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet |
Evolution
Multicellular development
Ecology
| Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest |
| The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors by David George Haskell |
Books for Young Readers
Videography
Websites