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Science and Nonbelief (Hardcover)
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Science and Nonbelief (Hardcover)
Series: Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion
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Provides an overview of the complex history of the interaction of
science and religion. Can science and religious belief co-exist?
Many people - including many practicing scientists - insist that
one can simultaneously follow the principles of the scientific
method and believe in a particular spiritual tradition. But
throughout history there have been people for whom science
challenges the very validity of religious belief. Whether called
atheists, agnostics, skeptics, or infidels, these individuals use
the naturalism of modern science to deny the existence of any
supernatural power. This book chronicles, in a balanced and
accessible way, the long history of the battle between adherents of
religious doctrines and the nonbelievers who adhere to the
naturalism of modern science. Science and Nonbelief provides a
nontechnical introduction to the leading questions that concern
science and religion today: what place does evolution hold in the
arguments of nonbelievers?; what does modern physics tell us about
the place of humanity in the natural world?; how do modern
neurosciences challenge traditional beliefs about mind and matter?;
what can scientific research about religion tell us and psychics?
The volume also addresses the political context of debates over
science and nonbelief, and questions about the nature of morality.
It includes a selection of provocative primary source documents
that illustrate the complexity and varieties of nonbelief. Part of
the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series, this book
includes a discussion of scientific attitudes to pseudo-science and
the paranormal. A primary source section illustrates views on the
relationship between science and belief. It adopts a balanced
approach to the questions raised.
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