Table of Contents for Science and Nonbelief
| 1. Science, Philosophy and Religious Doubt |
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Philosophers, Doubting and Devout |
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The Old Science and the Old Faith |
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The European Enlightenment |
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Nonbelief Comes of Age |
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Science and Nonbelief Today |
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Scientific Naturalism |
| 2. An Accidental World |
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Why Physics is Hard |
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The Nature of Modern Physics |
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The Burden of Proof |
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God in the Cracks of Causality |
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Quantum Mysticism |
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Cosmic Harmonies |
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Fine-Tuning the Universe |
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A Moment of Creation? |
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Physics and Naturalism |
| 3. Darwinian Creativity |
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Achieving Complexity |
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The Physics of Evolution |
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Evolution and Religion |
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Old-Fashioned Creationism |
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Intelligent Design |
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Creation Through Evolution |
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Universal Darwinism |
| 4. Minds Without Souls |
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Mind and Matter |
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Cartesian Dualism |
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Machines Who Think |
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Genes and Memes |
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The Conscious Brain |
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Qualia and Subjectivity |
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Mind Over Matter |
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The God Module |
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Parts and Wholes |
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Nonbelief Adapts to Brain Science |
| 5. The Fringes of Science |
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Ultimate Explanations |
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Miracles and Rejected Knowledge |
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Scripture as Miracle |
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From Spiritualism to New Age |
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Skeptics vs. Psychics |
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Miracles in the Laboratory |
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UFOs and Aliens |
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Direct Experience of the Paranormal? |
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Paranormal Skepticism and Nonbelief |
| 6. Explaining Religion |
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Too Many Religions |
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Religious Studies |
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Rational Choice Theory |
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The Secularization Thesis |
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Religion and Group Selection |
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A Virus of the Mind |
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The Religious Mind |
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Explaining Theology and Nonbelief |
| 7. Morality and Politics |
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More Than the Facts |
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The State of Science |
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The State of Nonbelief |
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A Morality of Reason |
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The Science of Morality |
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Separate Spheres |
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An Uneasy Alliance |
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