- ISBN13: 9780345440341
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Product Description
Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, in short, won’t God go away? In this groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d’Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: The religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain.
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Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
Tags: Away, Belief, Biology, Brain, Science, Won't
#1 by J. Lee Lehman on March 9, 2010 - 12:07 pm
While this book contains some intriguing information, I am troubled by the authors’ complete indifference to the ethics of subjecting perfectly healthy meditating people to quite possibly harmful radiation.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on March 9, 2010 - 1:31 pm
There’s nothing more annoying than those who claim to be scientists but who are open to a religious explanation as to why we might have evolved the way we did. If humans possess a brain, God did not put it there. It evolved. One is either a creationist or an evolutionist. There is no in-between. In order to sell more books, however, this author seems to sit on the fence and refuses to accept a purely scientific explanation to his own research…a real turn off.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on March 9, 2010 - 1:44 pm
Here I thought I was about to venture into pure, unadulterated scientific discovery only to find myself once again faced with another example of pseudo-scientific pablum. Not worth the investment of money or time.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by JMD on March 9, 2010 - 4:19 pm
The author cites the evolutionary and empirical evidence of modern day science and presents a convincing picture for justification of God, then completely deviates from reason and fact and concludes that science is a type of mythology – that we know nothing.
It was a boring read but I hoped for a climatic or at least informative ending…neither manifested.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Franklin Schmidt on March 9, 2010 - 6:33 pm
This book takes too long to get to the point. While I disagree with the book’s substance, I would rate the substance at least 2 stars. But the verbose rambling style could not keep my attention, so I just skimmed this book. The style is like New Age writing, which I can’t tolerate. This book could easily be shortened into a pleasant magazine article.
But this book won’t go away. Why? Because it tries to synthesize science and religion, and this has great appeal to many people. Critical reasoning makes clear that science and religion are incompatible. Anyone who truly understands either science or a religion will reject the final conclusions of this book. But the majority of readers who understand neither will find this book provocative.
Rating: 1 / 5