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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... theory of evolution and the other endorsing the successful marriage of fides et ratio, faith and reason. Because humans are storytelling animals, a deeper aspect of the God Question involves the origins and purposes of myth and religion ...
... these ideas, and as those who study complexity take time to think seriously about such cosmological puzzles as galaxy structure and formation, a new kind of astrophysical theory will develop, in which the universe will be.
... theory form the basis of just one possible natural explanation for how the universe and life came to be the way it is. But even if this explanation turns out to be wanting, or flat-out wrong, what alternative do Intelligent Design ...
... theories have emphasized the decline of religion as part of an inevitable process of 'secularization.' In the face of ... theory of supply-side religion: They argue that the “demand” for religion is relatively constant since the need of ...
... theories of religion date back at least as far as Adam Smith's 1776 publication The Wealth of Nations, in which he observed that market forces govern churches no differently than they do secular firms. But Greeley looks to a deeper ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
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 |