How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for GodA new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics |
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... evidence, then, like Harry Truman, we say “show me.” Some Christians claim that the Shroud of Turin proves that Jesus lived and was crucified and resurrected. But the shroud was carbon-14 dated and found to be a fourteenth-century hoax ...
... evidence of their senses tells them so. Thus, contrary to what most religions preach about the need and importance of faith, most people believe because of reason. So the fifth chapter reviews the various proofs of God, from those ...
... evidence of their senses and their understanding of how the world works. In other words, they give reasons for their beliefs. What are those reasons? If they are good reasons shouldn't we all become believers? GOD. AND. THE. INTELLIGENTLY.
... evidence' means the kind of support provided by reason and science, there is no evidence for God and immortality.” Gardner rejects the flood story (“even as a myth it is hard to admire the 'faith' of a man capable of supposing God could ...
... evidence or deductive proof. Therefore, from a scientific or philosophical position, theism and atheism are both indefensible positions as statements about the universe. Thomas Huxley once again clarified this distinction: Agnosticism ...
Contents
BELIEVE | |
RELIGION AND SCIENCE | |
AFTERWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION God on | |
What Does It Mean to Study Religion | |
A Bibliographic Essay on Theism Atheism and | |
NOTES | |
CREDITS | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
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How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God Michael Shermer Limited preview - 2003 |
How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God Michael Shermer No preview available - 2003 |