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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Modern science teaches us that anything can be explained in terms of atoms and forces, including the inner workings of the brain. But certain personal experiences can challenge the idea that there's nothing beyond inert matter. Communing with nature, working through a complex problem, or experiencing a piece of art, we sometimes feel a powerful sense of transcendence, of connecting with a cosmic unity that may seem unexplainable by science. But according...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to find out what happens when people die, the author of "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that there is an afterlife.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Refresh
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nowadays, beliefs rule the day. "Personal truth" is more important than "the truth." In one study, more than 91 percent of the respondents couldn't tell the difference between opinion and fact. For them, in other words, opinions are facts and beliefs are truth. In Believing is Seeing, former ABC News Science Editor and Harvard physics instructor Dr. Michael Guillen explains how every aspect of the human experience, from science to religion, is powered...
Author
Publisher
James Van Gelder
Pub. Date
20160507.
Language
English
Description
Enter the Infinite addresses techniques and methods utilized for stimulating states of transcendental awareness. These approaches stem from various traditions including: Tibetan Buddhism, Western Hermetics, Kundalini Yoga, Daoist Philosophy, and Egyptian Yoga.
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Why do certain individuals lead extraordinary lives while others seem to resonate with the mundane? How does fate determine who will have the ambition necessary in order...
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Language
English
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Description
Science and Faith Can-and Do-Support Each Other
Science and Christianity are often presented as opposites, when in fact the order of the universe and the complexity of life powerfully testify to intelligent design. With this comprehensive resource that includes the latest research, you'll witness how the findings of scientists provide compelling reasons to acknowledge the mind and presence of a creator.
Featuring more than 45 entries by top-caliber...
Author
Publisher
Harper One
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this moving and deeply thoughtful book, Jim Stump takes readers with him on his journey to understanding evolution and reconciling it with his faith. The Sacred Chain draws on philosophy, theology, and the latest scientific research to tackle some of the biggest questions facing humanity and people of faith today, such as:
Author
Publisher
Union Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Wherever we reach, from the smallest particle to the largest galaxy, from the alpha to the omega, in the room where we are reading these very words to the great natural world outside, we will find, if we seek, the fingerprints of an intelligent designer. Generations of brilliant men and women from the dawn of time have been led on this quest by the intimations of God in the details. The deep mysteries of life, of emotions, of love and death -- all,...
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Publisher
Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Four thousand years ago, a man made an agreement with his God that would change the world, affecting billions of people. The ramifications of that agreement are still being felt today on a wide scale basis. Part of that agreement was that all the world would be blessed through the mans seed, creating a holy royal bloodline, which would eventually lead to the Anointed one. Beginning with Abraham, to his great-grandson Judah, to King David, and to...
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Language
English
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Description
Militant atheism is on the rise. Prominent thinkers including Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have published best-selling books denigrating religious belief. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought. “The Devil's Delusion”...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Critiques the radical mindset that rages against religion and faith, and identifies the pillars of the new atheist belief system, revealing that the stringent rules and rigid traditions in place are as strict as those of any religious practice. The new atheists, led by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, do not make moral arguments about religion. Rather, they have created a new form of fundamentalism that attempts to permeate society...
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Language
English
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Description
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct this past that no human witnessed or recorded? In this sweeping and accessible...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The anticipated third book from New York Times bestselling author and respected Intelligent Design scholar Stephen C. Meyer makes a compelling argument for the existence of God based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology"--
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