| Description |
326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Does God Exist? -- Sophisticated Gods -- A Road Map -- Making Sense of God -- Something for Nothing -- A Necessary Being? -- The Impossible God -- A Religious Theory -- The Great Programmer -- Is God a Philosophical Problem? -- Let There be Life -- Specially Created -- Resisting Evolution -- Bringing Back the Designer -- Order from Chaos -- Darwin in Mind -- God After Darwin -- The Gods of Modern Physics -- Physics in the New Age -- Egocentric Cosmology -- The Big Banger -- A Quantum Spirit -- Life, the Universe, and Everything -- An Unnecessary Hypothesis -- History and Holy Writ -- Special Revelation -- Yahweh's Promise -- The Messenger of God -- God's Empires -- The Meanings of History -- The End of Revelation -- God Incarnate -- In Search of Jesus -- An Apocalyptic Prophet -- Mythmaking -- A Miracle Worker -- The Risen Lord -- The Bad News -- Signs and Wonders -- Wondrous Phenomena -- A Spiritual Science -- Great Performances -- Statistical Miracles -- Soaring Spirits -- Thinking Meat -- Of Mystics and Machines -- Feeling the Spirit -- Thirty-one Flavors of Ultimate Reality -- Beyond the Brain? -- The Limits of Language -- Holy Reason -- Accidental Reason -- Leaps of Faith -- Exorcizing Doubt -- Reason Reformed -- Progress? What Progress? -- Round in Circles -- The Sun Also Rises -- Universal Reason -- The Knowledge of Good and Evil -- Moral Certainty -- High Weirdness by Theology -- The Morality of a Social Animal -- Talking Morals -- Believing the Absurd -- Beyond Pragmatism. |
| Summary |
"Traditional Islam and Christianity, classical metaphysics, liberal theology, and New Age thought all tell us that cosmic reality is fundamentally spiritual. In contrast, Edlin presents a skeptical view, showing how thoroughgoing naturalism results in a much more compelling picture of our world. [back cover]. |
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Religion and science.
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Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
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God.
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Godsdienst.
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Wetenschap.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Edis, Taner, 1967- Ghost in the universe. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002 (OCoLC)606875103 |
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Online version: Edis, Taner, 1967- Ghost in the universe. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002 (OCoLC)609486660 |
| ISBN |
1573929778 (alk. paper) |
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9781573929776 (alk. paper) |
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