Evolving God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolving God write by Barbara J. King. This book was released on 2017-04-21. Evolving God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of How Animals Grieve “contends that religion . . . is a consequence of primate evolution” in this “brilliant book” (Booklist, starred review). Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves. But where did that desire come from? Can we explain its emergence through evolution? Yes, says biological anthropologist Barbara J. King—and doing so not only helps us to understand the religious imagination, but also reveals fascinating links to the lives and minds of our primate cousins. Evolving God draws on King’s own fieldwork among primates in Africa and paleoanthropology of our extinct ancestors to offer a new way of thinking about the origins of religion, one that situates it in a deep need for emotional connection with others, a need we share with apes and monkeys. Though her thesis is provocative, and she’s not above thoughtful speculation, King’s argument is strongly rooted in close observation and analysis. She traces an evolutionary path that connects us to other primates, who, like us, display empathy, make meanings through interaction, create social rules, and display imagination—the basic building blocks of the religious imagination. With fresh insights, she responds to recent suggestions that chimpanzees are spiritual—or even religious—beings, and that our ancient humanlike cousins carefully disposed of their dead well before the time of Neandertals. “Her interpretations result in a provocative hypothesis about the evolution of spirituality.” —The Dallas Morning News
Creator God, Evolving World
Creator God, Evolving World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creator God, Evolving World write by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Creator God, Evolving World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science. Those who pit faith in an almighty and unchanging God over against a world in which chance is operative have it wrong on several accounts, they insist. Creator God, Evolving World clarifies a number of confused assumptions in an effort to redeem chance as an intelligible force interacting with stable patterns in nature. A proper conception of probabilities and regularities in the world's unfolding reveals neither random chaos nor a predetermined blueprint but a view of the universe as the fruit of both chance and necessity. By clarifying terms often used imprecisely in both scientific and theological discourse, the authors make the case that the role of chance in evolution neither mitigates God's radical otherness from creation nor challenges the efficacy of God's providence in the world.
The Evolving God
The Evolving God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolving God write by J. David Pleins. This book was released on 2013-06-06. The Evolving God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a new appreciation of Darwin as a religion thinker and a better understanding of his positive contributions to the study of religion.
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods write by E. Fuller Torrey. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.
Thank God for Evolution
Thank God for Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thank God for Evolution write by Michael Dowd. This book was released on 2008. Thank God for Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a philosophy that unifies evolution and religion, discussing evolution as a divine process, how to use insights derived from evolution to improve spiritual life, and how to work for systemic change within this framework.
