No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe

Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation

. . . fascinating analysis of religious belief --

Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer

[A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves.

Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science

About the Book

Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist searches the scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds him to be an allegory.

This remarkable book, written in the layperson’s language, leaves no room for unproven ideas and instead seeks hard evidence for the existence of God. The author, a sympathetic critic and observer of religion, finds instead a physical universe that exists reasonlessly. He attributes good and evil to biology, not to God. In place of theism, the author gives us the knowledge that the universe is intelligible and that we are grownups, responsible for ourselves. He finds salvation in the here and now, and no ultimate purpose in life, except as we define it.

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No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe

Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation

. . . fascinating analysis of religious belief --

Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer

[A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves.

Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science

About the Book

Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist searches the scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds him to be an allegory.

This remarkable book, written in the layperson’s language, leaves no room for unproven ideas and instead seeks hard evidence for the existence of God. The author, a sympathetic critic and observer of religion, finds instead a physical universe that exists reasonlessly. He attributes good and evil to biology, not to God. In place of theism, the author gives us the knowledge that the universe is intelligible and that we are grownups, responsible for ourselves. He finds salvation in the here and now, and no ultimate purpose in life, except as we define it.

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Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation

. . . fascinating analysis of religious belief --

Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer

[A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves.

Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science

About the Book

Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist searches the scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds him to be an allegory.

This remarkable book, written in the layperson’s language, leaves no room for unproven ideas and instead seeks hard evidence for the existence of God. The author, a sympathetic critic and observer of religion, finds instead a physical universe that exists reasonlessly. He attributes good and evil to biology, not to God. In place of theism, the author gives us the knowledge that the universe is intelligible and that we are grownups, responsible for ourselves. He finds salvation in the here and now, and no ultimate purpose in life, except as we define it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780759610880
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication date: 11/01/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 480 KB

Table of Contents

Prefacexi
1.Sort of a hypothesis1
2.Science, evidence, and nonsense9
Scientific method10
Internal reality24
Anecdotal evidence28
Falsifiability31
Rational, irrational, and nonrational44
Self correction45
Paradigm shifts48
Taste58
Is religion falsifiable?67
3.Signs, wonders, and anecdotes73
Miracles73
Credit and blame80
Reward and punishment82
Wishful thinking89
Signs97
4.Questioning authority115
The Bible as a science text120
The Hebrew Bible126
The Book of Jonah133
The Gospels137
The scientific literature147
Is the Bible true?149
5.The evil that men do157
The Book of Job160
The play, J. B.168
The biological origin of evil169
6.Aquinas's error185
Elemental God188
The Ontological Argument189
The Argument from First Cause197
The Argument from Contingency204
The Argument from Design207
The Argument from Evolution210
The Anthropic Principle219
The Argument from Mathematical Physics224
Mysticism and the Argument from Religious Experience232
7.Experimentalist's universe249
Ockham's razor250
Determinism253
Damasio and Descartes258
8.The magnificent structure of nature271
9.Questions theists ask279
AppendixRandom determinism299
Schrodinger's cat299
Quantum mechanics demystified (a little)304
References309
Index323
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