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''A Devil's Chaplain'', subtitled ''Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love'' is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by Richard Dawkins. Published five years after his previous book ''Unweaving the Rainbow'', it contains 32 essays covering subjects including pseudoscience, genetic determinism, memetics, terrorism, religion and creationism. A section of the book is devoted to Dawkins' late adversary Stephen Jay Gould. The book's title is a reference to a quotation of Charles Darwin, made in reference to Darwin's lack of belief in how "a perfect world" was designed by God: "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horridly cruel works of nature!"〔This was written in 1857 as Darwin worked towards the publication of his theory, and has been related to his memories of his time at university when an "Infidel home missionary tour" by the Reverend Robert Taylor warned Darwin of the dangers of dissent from church doctrine. While Taylor was subsequently nicknamed "the devil's chaplain," the term goes back further, and Geoffrey Chaucer has his Parson say "Flatereres been the develes chapelleyns, that syngen evere placebo" in a reference to Placebo (at funeral)."〕〔("Darwin's child" ), profile by Simon Hattenstone, ''The Guardian'', 10 February 2003.〕 ==Content== The book is divided into seven sections as follows: 1 Science and Sensibility– essays largely concerning science and the scientific method. :1.1 A Devil's Chaplain :1.2 What is True? :1.3 Gaps in the Mind〔(Article in World of Dawkins Web Site )〕 :1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair :1.5 Trial By Jury〔(Trial by Jury – Richard Dawkins )〕 :1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls :1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed〔(Postmodernism Disrobed ) A review of ''Intellectual Impostures'' by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont〕 :1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously; Sanderson of Oundle〔(The Joy of Living Dangerously )〕 2 Light Will Be Thrown– essays on Darwinian topics. :2.1 Light Will Be Thrown (an edited version of the essay, which is an introduction to a recent edition of Charles Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'')〔http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/2003-02-08darwin-wallace.shtml〕 :2.2 Darwin Triumphant :2.3 The 'Information Challenge'〔(The Information Challenge ) (from Australian Skeptics, regarding an interview with creationists)〕 :2.4 Genes Aren't Us :2.5 Son of Moore's Law 3 The Infected Mind– a selection of anti-religious writings. :3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers :3.2 Viruses of the Mind〔(Article in World of Dawkins Web Site )〕 :3.3 The Great Convergence〔(Snake Oil and Holy Water )〕 :3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads〔(Dolly and the cloth-heads )〕 :3.5 Time to Stand Up〔(Article in World of Dawkins Web Site )〕 4 They Told Me, Heraclitus– some eulogies for late friends. :4.1 Lament for Douglas〔(Article in World of Dawkins Web Site )〕 :4.2 Eulogy for Douglas Adams :4.3 Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton :4.4 Snake Oil 5 Even the Ranks of Tuscany– a section devoted to the late Stephen Jay Gould. :5.1 Rejoicing in Multifarious Nature :5.2 The Art of the Developable :5.3 Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends〔(Wonderful Life Review )〕 (A review of Stephen Jay Gould's ''Wonderful Life'') :5.4 Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress〔(Human Chauvinism )〕 :5.5 Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight 6 There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us– essays connected with Africa. :6.1 Ecology of Genes :6.2 Out of the Soul of Africa :6.3 I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys :6.4 Heroes and Ancestors 7 A Prayer for My Daughter– an open letter to Dawkins' daughter Juliet (to whom the book is dedicated), concerning the importance of evaluating evidence. :7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing〔(Good and Bad Reasons for Believing )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Devil's Chaplain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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