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The brain
"The dramatic story of the brain's role in creating our world, our experience of it, and ourselves; the basis for a PBS television series by the bestselling David Eagleman. How does a three pound mass of biological matter locked in the dark, silent fortress of the skull produce the extraordinary multi-sensory experience that comprises us, while also constructing reality and guiding us through the endless need to make decisions and determine our judgments and into a future that we are convinced we are shaping? David Eagleman compares the brain to a cityscape with different neighborhoods where neural networks vie for supremacy and determine our behavior in ways we are not always aware or in control of. At the same time, he suggests that the brain works as a storyteller--creating a narrative that allows us to navigate and make sense of a world that it is busy constructing for us"--
Science and religion
Now thoroughly updated to reflect the latest debates, this popular textbook introduces readers to the central questions in the field of science and religion. Ideally suited to those who have little or no prior knowledge in either area, it incorporates numerous student-friendly features, including maps, summaries, and historical references, resulting in the most up-to-date introduction to the study of religion and the natural sciences available. Examines the historical, theological, philosophical and scientific aspects of the interaction between religion and scienceFully updated to r.
Teilhard de Chardin on love and suffering
1966
A careful analysis of Teilhard de Chardin's views, as a scientist and as a Christian, on two important problems in the world today: the problem of love and the problem of suffering. Does science objectively encounter love? In a Teilhardian critique of the true meaning of matter, the author answers in the affirmative and demonstrates how science arrives at love in the world -- a love that logically leads to the Christian faith. Is the Christianity of Teilhard a Christianity without the cross? The author shows the entire work of Teilhard de Chardin illuminated by the shadow of the cross. Teilhard's every thought as a scientist living within the mystery of the cross -- is marked by that mystery, which he urges us to look for within the Church in order better to understand it. For Teilhard, the problem of evil is in reality an expression of love and a principle of union between God and mankind.