ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1984.tb00565.x LOREN EISELEY: RELIGIOUS SCIENTIST Franke Robert G. 02 03 1984 19 1 10.1111/zygo.1984.19.issue-1 29 41

Abstract. Loren Eiseley is known both as a scientist and an essayist/poet. The disillusionment with science and technology among many in the late 1950s and the search for new values in the 1960s help account for Eiseley's significance as a writer. He appears to offer a solution to mankind's contemporary disillusionment by reminding that science has limits and that intuitive, nonscientific insight is valid, especially when it is complementary to scientific knowledge. The thesis of this essay is that in content and style Eiseley writes as a religious writer in the sense that he reaffirms what is necessary for humankind to be happy and even to be “saved.”

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