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Carregando... God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (2002)de Victor J. Stenger
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Slightly too technical and mathematical in places for me, but also fascinating and compelling. Definitely recommend! The last half definitely regained my interest. ( ) Another book from physicist Stenger debunking supernaturalism -- there could never be too many. This one is nontechnical (unlike, e.g., 2011's _The Fallacy of Fine Tuning_) and concentrates on rebutting the notion, so dear to the Templeton Foundationers and their ilk, that science and religion can harmoniously co-exist. ("Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings.") Stenger's willingness to wade through huge amounts of written claptrap from the myth-and-mysticism crowd, even considering that it is for refutation purposes, is just amazing. Great dangers threaten: every American, especially, needs to read the very scary final chapter, freely available at http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Folly/FollyCh14.pdf sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science. It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the development of science. In a sweeping historical survey that begins with ancient Greek science and proceeds through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to contemporary advances in physics and cosmology, Stenger makes a convincing case that not only is this conclusion false, but Christianity actually held back the progress of science for one thousand years. It is significant, he notes, that the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century occurred only after the revolts against established ecclesiastic authorities in the Renaissance and Reformation opened up new avenues of thought. The author goes on to detail how religion and science are fundamentally incompatible in several areas: the origin of the universe and its physical parameters, the origin of complexity, holism versus reductionism, the nature of mind and consciousness, and the source of morality. In the end, Stenger is most troubled by the negative influence that organized religion often exerts on politics and society. He points out antiscientific attitudes embedded in popular religion that are being used to suppress scientific results on issues of global importance, such as overpopulation and environmental degradation. When religion fosters disrespect for science, it threatens the generations of humanity that will follow ours. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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