This important and timely book delivers
a startling analysis of the clash of faith
and reason in today's world. Harris offers
a vivid historical tour of mankind's
willingness to suspend reason in favor of
religious beliefs, even when those beliefs
are used to justify harmful behavior and
sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that
in the shadow of weapons of mass
destruction, we can no longer tolerate
views that pit one true god against
another. Most controversially, he argues
that we cannot afford moderate lip service
to religion -- an accommodation that only
blinds us to the real perils of
fundamentalism. While warning against the
encroachment of organized religion into
world politics, Harris also draws on new
evidence from neuroscience and insights
from philosophy to explore spirituality as
a biological, brain-based need. He calls
on us to invoke that need in taking a
secular humanistic approach to solving the
problems of this world.
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science
and the Biology of Belief
Over the centuries, theories have
abounded as to why human beings have a
seemingly irrational attraction to God and
religious experiences. In Why God Won't Go
Away authors Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene
D'Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause offer a
startlingly simple, yet scientifically
plausible opinion: humans seek God because
our brains are biologically programmed to
do so.
Ian
Barbour's books on religion and science
have been very popular and are an easy
read. Here are three of
them.
Strange
developments
are going on in astronomy, says
Jastrow, and they are fascinating partly
because of their theological implications,
and partly because of the peculiar
reactions of scientists. Find out all
about it!
God and the
New Physics
A must read by a respected physicist. A
lot is going on in science that the
average religious-minded person is unaware
of. Fascinating!
Taking the
Quantum Leap: The New Physics for
Nonscientists
"I view quantum mechanics as very
necessary in human development and
psychology. I feel that the underlying
order of the qwiff, the quantum mechanics
of the universe, is God's will being
done." Fred Alan Wolf
A fascinating journey for the general
reader from the earliest and most
fundamental concepts of physics to the
furthest limits of science and
imagination--an American Book Award
winner.
Is There a
God? Is There Life after
Death?
Most modern scientists would answer
those questions with a simple no. They
would say that there is no proof, no
indication, no hint in nature that the
universe is anything but a cold, unknowing
place, that human beings are accidents of
evolution, that when we die, our
consciousness disappears into oblivion.
But what if there was proof? With the
publication of The Physics of
Immortality, has science found God? A
controversial book by a renowned
physicist. Warning: this book is not for
leisure reading!
Darwin's
Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the
Nature of Society
One of the great intellectual battles
of modern times is between evolution and
religion. Until now, they have been
considered completely irreconcilable
theories of origin and existence. David
Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes
the radical step of joining the two, in
the process proposing an evolutionary
theory of religion that shakes both
evolutionary biology and social theory at
their foundations.
