Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer?: A Geneticist Responds to Francis Collins - Couverture souple

Cunningham M.D., George C.

 
9781591027669: Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer?: A Geneticist Responds to Francis Collins
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ISBN 10 : 1591027667 ISBN 13 : 9781591027669
Editeur : Prometheus Books, 2009

Synopsis

In his bestselling book, The Language of God, Francis Collins—the director of the National Institutes of Health and the scientist who led the Human Genome Project—attempted to harmonize the findings of scientific research with Christian belief. In this response to Collins’s work, fellow geneticist George C. Cunningham presents a point-by-point rebuttal of The Language of God, arguing that there is no scientifically acceptable evidence to support belief in a personal God and much that discredits it.

Written with admirable clarity for the nonscientist, Decoding the Language of God covers much of the same ground addressed by Collins in his book: the origins of moral behavior, the difficulty of reconciling belief in a good God with the existence of evil. and anthropic coincidences as evidence of God as creator.
 
Cunningham also devotes chapters to the unreliability of the Bible as a basis for belief; the conflict between naturalistic explanations of reality, which are anchored in scientific research, and supernatural interpretations, which are not; and the many difficulties in conceptualizing the origins of the universe in terms of a personal God.

Unlike recent hostile attacks on religious belief, Cunningham’s respectful, well-reasoned discussion will appeal to open-minded people across the whole spectrum of belief and unbelief.

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À propos de l?auteur

George C. Cunningham, MD, MPH (San Francisco, CA), now retired, is the former chief of the Genetic Disease Branch of the California State Department of Health Services. He has published more than 150 articles in scientific publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, the American Journal of Human Genetics, and Pediatrics.

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Éditeur
Prometheus Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1591027667
ISBN 13 
9781591027669
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
269
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