lest any vicar feel tempted to pick up this book in search of inspiration for sunday sermons, it should be pointed out that scruton doesn't have much to say specifically about god or christianity, except at the end. what he mostly defends in these essays is a thinking person's right to say no to a boiled-down darwinism that reduces all relationships to contracts and all human behaviour and emotions to biological selection and adaptation. ... scruton argues persuasively that much of what passes for scientific fact today is just the latest fashion in physics. but one wonders who would find this eloquent plea on behalf of the right to interpret things in various ways objectionable.