Across the Secular Abyss

From Faith to Wisdom

Autor: William Sims Bainbridge

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Editura: Lexington Books

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Across the Secular Abyss explains the cultural chasm we currently face, with a traditional religion-...

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Autor

William Sims Bainbridge

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2007

Pagini

318

EAN

9780739116784

ISBN

0739116789

Enbook ID

04902595

Editura

Lexington Books

Greutate

599

Dimensiuni

160 x 236 x 28

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Across the Secular Abyss explains the cultural chasm we currently face, with a traditional religion-based society behind us, and an as-yet unknown secular society ahead. For over a century, scholars, social scientists, and policy makers have debated the apparent erosion of religious faith and wondered whether Western Civilization was turning its back on religion. Today, the issue has reached a crisis point. In the U.S., a new battle between faith and science has erupted within educational institutions, as political polarization progressively divides the country along religious lines. After a century-long truce in which religion and science implicitly agreed to leave each other alone, science is again invading the territory of religion, most obviously in cognitive science that is debunking religious notions of the human soul, and in the broad convergence of many branches of science into one that leaves few gaps where supernatural beliefs could survive. Religion, for its part, is resisting a range of emerging technologies that could transform human nature, namely human reproductive cloning and the kinds of transformative technologies advocated by the Transhumanist movement. Although pure Atheism has little to offer people, and Atheists tend to be people lacking in social obligations, entirely new possibilities are offered by emerging technologies such as computer emulation of human personalities.

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