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Science and Nonbelief - Couverture souple

Edis, Taner

 
9781591025610: Science and Nonbelief
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1591025613 ISBN 13 : 9781591025610
Editeur : Prometheus Books, 2007

Synopsis

Scientists have raised questions about religious belief since the earliest development of scientific thought. Over the centuries, as science has become ever more sophisticated and answered many of the questions previously in the domain of religion, more and more people have developed a skeptical point of view regarding religion. Today, many scientists are nonbelievers with a secular, science-based perspective.
In this wide-ranging overview, physicist and acclaimed science writer Taner Edis examines the relationship between today’s sciences and religious nonbelief. Beginning with a brief history of science and philosophical doubt, Edis goes on to describe those theories in contemporary science that challenge spiritual views by favoring a naturalistic conception of the world. He provides a very readable, nontechnical introduction to the leading scientific ideas that impinge upon religious belief in the areas of modern physics and cosmology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive and brain science. He also shows how science supplies naturalistic explanations for allegedly miraculous and paranormal phenomena and explains widespread belief in the supernatural. Finally, he addresses the political context of debates over science and nonbelief as well as questions about morality.
Complete with an historical chronology, an extensive annotated bibliography, and selections from primary sources, Science and Nonbelief is an indispensable and accessible reference work on the subject.

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À propos de l'auteur

Taner Edis (Kirksville, MO) is an associate professor of physics at Truman State University and the author of The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science and An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam, among other publications.

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Éditeur
Prometheus Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1591025613
ISBN 13 
9781591025610
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
283
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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