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Title:Science & Nonbelief
Author:Taner Edis
ISBN:1591025613 : 9781591025610
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:283
Weight: .406 Kg.
Published:Prometheus Books - November 2007
List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Philosophy of science: Agnosticism & atheism


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 sceptical point of view regarding religion. Today, many scientists are non-believers 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 non-belief. 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 favouring a naturalistic conception of the world. He provides a very readable, non-technical 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 non-belief as well as questions about morality.

Science, Philosophy & Religious Doubt; An Accidental World; Darwinian Creativity; Mind without Souls; The Fringes of Science; Explaining Religion; Morality & Politics; Index.