How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for GodHenry Holt and Company, 1 באוק׳ 2003 - 368 עמודים A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics |
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... words, people say they believe in God because the 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 ...
... 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. DESIGNED. UNIVERSE. The hottest area in the search for scientific support of God's ...
... word God is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness,—a literary term, in ...
... words, I “witnessed” to people—a polite term for trying to convert them (one wag called it “Amway with Bibles”). Of course, I read the Bible, as well as books about the Bible. I regularly attended youth church groups, one in particular ...
... word games and obfuscating analogies to me. For example: “Imagine history as one long film, which God has already seen but we, the characters in the film have not, so our actions 'seem' free even though they are predestined.” Or: “God ...
תוכן
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 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God <span dir=ltr>Michael Shermer</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2003 |