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