Why We Believe in God(s)
A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith
$27.81
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2011
Summary
In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, methodically investigates the components and causes of religious belief in the same way any scientist would investigate the movement of astronomical bodies or the evolution of life …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780984493210 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0984493212 |
| Author: | Clare Aukofer, J. Anderson Thomson, Richard Dawkins |
| Publisher: | Pitchstone Publishing |
| Imprint: | Pitchstone Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 147g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 120mm x 177mm |
Critics Review
“Andy Thomson, with Clare Aukofer, has written a wonderfully concise introduction to our growing scientific understanding of religion. If you would like to learn, in the span of an hour, why we have every reason to believe that God is man-made—this is the book to read.”
—Sam Harris, author of the New York Times best sellers The Moral Landscape, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The End of Faith
Clare Aukofer
J. Anderson Thomson Jr., MD, is a staff psychiatrist at the University of Virginia’s Student Health Center and Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. He maintains a private practice of adult and forensic psychiatry and serves as a trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Clare Aukofer is a medical writer and editor. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Richard Dawkins is an ethologist, an evolutionary biologist, and a writer. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was formerly University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science. Among his previous books are The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and The Selfish Gene.
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