Showing titles in Science & Religion

Suddenly, Brian Causey found himself stumbling over life’s greatest questions: Why are we here? How did the universe and life begin? Why is there suffering in the world? What happens after we die? If there is an afterlife, how do I get there? Brian ultimately concluded that the evidence points in the direction of God’s existence. In Trading Gods, he shares his personal journey, rationale for faith, and the supporting research that explains why the real God is the best answer to life’s biggest questions.

To quote the movie, A Few Good Men, the world decries, “I want the truth!” Yet the military and the government have shouted back, “You can’t handle the truth!” Until now… We are on the cusp of public disclosure, and the implications are staggering. Is it possible for Christians to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) life? Author John Milor argues yes; it simply requires looking at Scripture with an updated lens. This book does that by highlighting over seven hundred scriptures that document the existence, relevance, and significance of ETs. Scripture states in ...

Richard Dawkins and Deepak Chopra are two of the most famous Big Thinkers of our time. And yet their deeply acrimonious, decade-long battle over God, human consciousness and "quantum healing" has gone unchronicled until now. Dawkins, a best-selling author and evolutionary biologist who coined the term "meme", has staked his name on the cause of militant atheism.

How many of us believe in telepathy? Or in ghosts? Or the power of prayer? In this provocative and disturbing book Nicholas Humphrey discusses why so many people still cling, like children seeking reassurance, to belief in supernatural forces: an immaterial soul, universal connectedness and life after death. Using a novel approach, the 'Argument from Unwarranted Design', Humphrey mounts a devastating critique of the existing evidence for the paranormal, ranging from miracles to the laboratory evidence for extrasensory perception. He asks why so many sensible people nonetheless refuse to ...

This book explains why faith is a fallacy and serves no useful purpose other than providing an excuse for pretending to know things that are unknown. It also explains how losing faith liberates former sufferers from fear, delusion and the control of others, freeing them to see the world in a different light, to recognise the injustices that religions cause and to accept people for who they are, not which group they happened to be born in. A society based on atheist, Humanist principles would be a less divided, more inclusive, more peaceful society and one more appreciative of the one ...

Si Dios es amor, ¿por qué no acaba con el sufrimiento?, se supone que es "Todopoderoso", ¿verdad? Nos dicen que Dios es bueno, justo, amoroso. Pero… si realmente lo es, ¿por qué el dolor sigue aquí? Si Dios puede sanar el cáncer de alguien, ¿por qué no el de todos? Si puede salvar a una persona de un accidente, ¿por qué deja morir a otras? ¿Es cuestión de fe, de suerte… o simplemente de favoritismo divino?, ¿Por qué ya no hace tantos milagros como en las historias de la biblia?. Tal vez Dios no es lo que nos dijeron. Tal vez no juega bajo nuestras reglas. O peor aún… ...

A travelogue suffused with the wisdom of an ancient religious tradition, Humble Before the Void is a modern-day encounter between Western science and Buddhist philosophy. In this narrative, you'll discover the relationship between ancient Indian philosophical and spiritual tradition and modern science through the experiences of a select group of Tibetan monks.

Can religious beliefs survive in the scientific age? Are they resoundingly outdated? Or, is there something in them of great importance, even if the way they are expressed will have to change given new scientific context? These questions are among those at the core of the science-religion dialogue.

The message of modern physics is that physical reality has, at its frontiers, all the aspects of a transcendent order. At the foundation of things, elementary particles can exert instantaneous long-distance influences on each other, can be meaningfully said to have mind-like properties, and can exist in states which are, as Heisenberg wrote, "not quite real, but between the idea of a thing and a real thing."

Believers is a scientist's answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the "Four Horsemen" - Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens - known for writing about religion as something irrational and ultimately harmful. Anthropologist Melvin Konner explores the psychology, development, brain science, evolution, and even genetics of the varied religious impulses we experience as a species.

If you’re a member of the human race, then you’re no stranger to one of the most destructive forces in the Universe: cynicism. Instead of seeing the beauty in life, the cynical mind sees only ugliness and in doing so changes that beauty into something ugly. To better understand how to resist such a mindset is the subject of this work: Conquering Cynicism in a Modern Age: How The Bible in Nature Provides an Antidote to Doubt and Despair.

Shortly before midnight on Sunday 14th April 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank at 2.17 am. What made this tragedy particularly shocking at the time was that Titanic was widely believed to be unsinkable — by passengers, crew and by the public at large. Today Darwin's theory of evolution enjoys a similar "unsinkable" reputation. The thesis of this book is that 19th century Darwinian science, developing as it did in an age that also gave rise to supreme confidence in Titanic's unsinkability, has collided with the 'iceberg' of 21st century molecular biology.

In Religion and Medicine, Dr. Jeff Levin outlines this longstanding history and the multifaceted interconnections between these two institutions. The first book to cover the full breadth of this subject, it documents religion-medicine alliances across religious traditions, throughout the world, and over the course of history. Levin summarizes a wide range of material in the most comprehensive introduction to this emerging field of scholarship to date.

Prayer, Medicine, and Healing is an invitation to pray for the sick based on evidence from the Bible, church history, and the origins of the modern hospital. Tracing the history of healing from the Hebrew Bible and reviewing the healing ministry of Jesus and his disciples, Thomson K. Mathew examines church history and the history of hospitals to affirm both medicine and prayer.

A scientific look at ancient technology in the Bible. Making sense of why the pyramids were built and the methods God used to communicate with the high priest in the Old Testament.

La science peut-elle tout expliquer ? Beaucoup de gens le pensent aujourd’hui. Il faut dire que les découvertes et les progrès technologiques ont été extrêmement nombreux ces dernières décennies. Néanmoins, faut-il aller jusqu’à estimer que la religion se voit de facto reléguée au rang des pensées archaïques ? Foi et raison sont-elles forcément irréconciliables ? À la fois scientifique de renom et fervent chrétien, le professeur John Lennox propose dans cet ouvrage une réflexion stimulante et accessible sur l’un des grands sujets de débat de notre époque.

In this manual for hospice patients and their families, Dr. Baumann does what he does best: he transforms complex scientific concepts to understandable terms for the average person. Specifically, he shows how science proves there IS an afterlife. Within these pages, Baumann lists the major scientific concepts that complement one's own personal religious beliefs - irrespective of any one religious faith.

Over the last 100 years, scientists in various fields have persuasively argued that the Earth was formed by evolutionary processes operating over long periods of time. How is a Christian to reconcile these ideas with the Genesis creation account? Doesn’t the Bible teach that God spoke the Earth into existence fully formed just 6,000 years ago? Dr. Ken Coulson answers these questions by affirming the legitimacy of large-scale natural processes without denying a young-age view.

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "the natives". Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind" have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and contradictory ways.  

Dr. Curtis Reynolds explains the gift of the human body, who made it, and the intelligence found within all of us. In Designed by the Creator, you will learn that your body was designed, created, and crafted by a supreme being. It didn't happen by chance. Whatever religious belief you have or don't have, this audiobook will convince you that you were designed by the creator. Some call him God. Some call him Allah. The fact is that throughout history man has believed and recognized the power of a supreme being. Did you know you have innate intelligence?