The illusion of certainty : how the flawed beliefs of religion harm our culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Houk, James T. (James Titus), 1955- author. |
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| Imprint: | Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | 381 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11374218 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part 1. Culture is Fictional and Illusory
- Chapter 2. The Etiology of This Pathology
- Chapter 3. Religion
- Chapter 4. Sexual Orientation
- Chapter 5. Race and Racism
- Chapter 6. Anti-Semitism
- Part 2. The Delusion of Young-Earth Creationism
- Chapter 7. The Faith-Based Epistemology
- Chapter 8. Young-Earth Creationism
- Chapter 9. Twelve Reasons Why the Young-Earth Hypothesis Is Certainly Wrong
- Chapter 10. Four Reasons Why the Young-Earth Hypothesis Is Probably Wrong
- Chapter 11. Four Reasons Why the Young-Earth Hypothesis Is Dubious
- Chapter 12. The Intellectual Deceit of Young-Earth Creationism
- Part 3. Four Important (And Potentially Flawed) Sources of Religious Knowledge
- Chapter 13. Questionable Validity
- Chapter 14. Natural Theology
- Chapter 15. Revelation
- Chapter 16. Subjective Experiences
- Chapter 17. Overt Instruction
- Part 4. Holy Scriptures Are Mundane, Flawed, and Unreliable
- Chapter 18. Scriptures
- Chapter 19. The Bible Condones Slavery
- Chapter 20. The Bible Is Misogynistic
- Chapter 21. Writers of the Bible Show an Ignorance of Basic Scientific Knowledge
- Chapter 22. The Bible Is Homophobic
- Chapter 23. The Biblical Text Contains Absurd and Nonsensical Food Prohibitions
- Chapter 24. There Are "Just-So Stories" in the Bible
- Chapter 25. The Bible Contains No Information That Goes Beyond What People Knew and Understood at the Time It Was Written
- Chapter 26. The Biblical God Is a Local, Tribal God Who Favors Only the Israelites
- Chapter 27. The Biblical God Is a Violent Killer
- Chapter 28. The Bible Contains Many Passages That Are Preposterous and Absurd
- Chapter 29. The Bible Contains Numerous Contradictions, Errors, and Falsehoods
- Chapter 30. Divine (?) Origin of the Bible
- Chapter 31. The Putative Divine Literality and Inerrancy of the Bible
- Chapter 32. Either False or Nonfalsifiable
- Part 5. Agnosticism and the Objective Arguments for and Against the Existence of God
- Chapter 33. Agnosticism
- Chapter 34. Moral Arguments for the Existence of God
- Chapter 35. The Argument from Universal Causation
- Chapter 36. Argument from Contingency
- Chapter 37. Argument from Design
- Chapter 38. The Problem of Evil
- Chapter 39. The Burden of Proof
- Conclusion
- Chapter 40. This Illusion Has No Future
- Notes
- Index
