This debut book boldly seeks to argue competitively in the same intellectual field as famous atheists such as RICHARD DAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, and BERTRAND RUSSELL, and to do so in the spirit and style of such famous Christian apologists as C.S. Lewis and RAVI ZACHARIAS, drawing heavily on basic science, history, physics, psychology, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, neurology, child development and even science fiction. It describes the evolution of the human brain in ancient hominids allowing humans to eventually conceive a non-physical realm (the spirit world), and as the mind evolved intellectually from primitive animism to Christology, God revealed himself gradually as the developing hominid brain became able to comprehend new ideas. For Believers, the author presents a new, intellectually satisfying way to understand and defend the Bible. For both Skeptics and Believers, a worldview is offered that is spiritually meaningful and scientifically sound.
Ajay Kansal marshals anthropological and historical facts about the development of religions in a simple and straightforward manner to assert that it was mankind that created gods, and not the other way around.
Vast in scope and thrilling in ambition, The Evolution of God brilliantly alters our understanding of God and where He came from-and where He and we are going next.
1 : paper delivered at Epic of Evolution Conference , Chicago ( 1997 ) ; p . 24 : Deeper Than Darwin ( 2003 ) , p . 162 . Havel , Václav - Czech writer and world advocate of human rights ; first president of the postSoviet Czech ...
John H. Campbell and J. William Schopf (Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 1994), 4. 17. Ibid., 5, emphasis added. 18. Ibid., 4. 19. Dawkins, River Out of Eden, 133. 20. A. J. Mattill Jr., The Seven Mighty Blows to Traditional Beliefs, 2nd ed.
"This book is part of a series published by the Center for Science & Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle."--T.p. verso.
Here is history endowed with moral significance–a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve ...
Evolution, Games, and God explores how cooperation and altruism, alongside mutation and natural selection, play a critical role in evolution, from microbes to human societies.
Written for the layman, but with a scientific slant, this compelling book devastates Darwinian arguments for the origin of our universe and planet.
This book redresses this imbalance by offering a rigorous academic treatment of the questions surrounding God and the suffering of non-human animals.
Berry describes why so many Christians have difficulty believing in the theory of evolution. (Christian Living)