Why We Believe in God(s) : A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith
ISBN: 9780984493210 | 0984493212
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Atlasbooks Dist Serv
Pub. Date: 6/1/2011
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Why We Believe In God(s) provides a brief and accessible guide to the exciting new discoveries that allow us to finally understand why and how the human mind generates, accepts, and spreads religious beliefs.
| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Preface | p. 15 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 19 |
| In the Beginning Was the Word: Our Propensity to Believe | p. 27 |
| In the Image and Likeness: Evolution 101 | p. 34 |
| Our Daily Bread: Craving a Caretaker | p. 42 |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen: Conceiving Souls | p. 50 |
| Because the Bible Tells Me So: Believing in the Invisible | p. 54 |
| And Deliver Us f... MORE | p. 63 |
| Thy Will Be Done: Submitting to the Law of God(s) | p. 73 |
| Wherever Two or More of You Are Gathered: Harnessing Brain Chemistry through Ritual | p. 82 |
| Oh Ye of Little Faith: Discovering the Physical Evidence of God(s) as By-product | p. 104 |
| Lest Ye Be Judged: Educating Our Minds | p. 112 |
| Notes | p. 117 |
| Glossary | p. 142 |
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J. Anderson Andy Thomson, Jr., MD, is a staff psychiatrist at the University of Virginia's Student Health Center and Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, and maintains a private practice of adult and forensic psychiatry. He serves as a trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Clare Aukofer is a medical writer who has collaborated with Dr. Thomson on several projects.
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