Why Would Anyone Believe in 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 Why Would Anyone Believe in God? write by Justin L. Barrett. This book was released on 2004. Why Would Anyone Believe in God? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because of the design of our minds. That is Justin Barrett's simple answer to the question of his title. With rich evidence from cognitive science but without technical language, psychologist Barrett shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence of the kind of minds we have. Most of what we believe comes from mental tools working below our conscious awareness. And what we believe consciously is in large part driven by these unconscious beliefs. Barrett demonstrates that beliefs in gods match up well with these automatic assumptions; beliefs in an all-knowing, all-powerful God match up even better. Barrett goes on to explain why beliefs like religious beliefs are so widespread and why it is very difficult for our minds to think without them. Anyone who wants a concise, clear, and scientific explanation of why anyone would believe in God should pick up Barrett's book.
Why We Believe in God(s)
Why We Believe in God(s) - 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 Why We Believe in God(s) write by J. Anderson Thomson. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Why We Believe in God(s) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 over time—that is, as a purely natural phenomenon. Providing compelling evidence from psychology, the cognitive neurosciences, and related fields, he, with Ms. Aukofer, presents an easily accessible and exceptionally convincing case that god(s) were created by man—not vice versa. With this slim volume, Dr. Thomson establishes himself as a must-read thinker and leading voice on the primacy of reason and science over superstition and religion.
The Reason for God
The Reason for 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 Reason for God write by Timothy Keller. This book was released on 2008-02-14. The Reason for God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek). Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. To true believers he offers a solid platform on which to stand their ground against the backlash to religion created by the Age of Skepticism. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing the reason for God.
Everybody Is Wrong About God
Everybody Is Wrong About 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 Everybody Is Wrong About God write by James A. Lindsay. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Everybody Is Wrong About God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A call to action to address people's psychological and social motives for a belief in God, rather than debate the existence of God With every argument for theism long since discredited, the result is that atheism has become little more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. Thus, engaging in interminable debate with religious believers about the existence of God has become exactly the wrong way for nonbelievers to try to deal with misguided—and often dangerous—belief in a higher power. The key, author James Lindsay argues, is to stop that particular conversation. He demonstrates that whenever people say they believe in "God," they are really telling us that they have certain psychological and social needs that they do not know how to meet. Lindsay then provides more productive avenues of discussion and action. Once nonbelievers understand this simple point, and drop the very label of atheist, will they be able to change the way we all think about, talk about, and act upon the troublesome notion called "God."
Why I Believe in God
Why I Believe in 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 Why I Believe in God write by Cornelius Van Til. This book was released on 1966. Why I Believe in God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
