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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDietrich, Eric
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245 1 0 _aExcellent Beauty :
_bThe Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World /
_cEric Dietrich.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAuthor's Note --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tWho's in Charge of the World's Mysteries? --
_tCHAPTER ONE. The Traveler to Excellent Beauty: Invited Rather Than Drafted --
_tPART ONE. Of Spiritual Journeys --
_tCHAPTER TWO. What Is a Religion? --
_tCHAPTER THREE. The One Billion --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. The Traveler's Dark Night of the Sou --
_tAPPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4. Statistics and Probability Meet Job --
_tPART TWO. The Biology of Religion, the Psychology of Morality --
_tIntroduction to Part Two --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Justifying the Ways of God to Man via Evolution --
_tAPPENDIX TO CHAPTER 5. Yes, There Really Is Such a Thing as a Coincidence --
_tCHAPTER SIX. Does God Want You Dead? --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. Good Without Gods --
_tPART THREE. The Journey in Tatters --
_tCHAPTER EIGHT. Beyond Atheism: The Religion Illusion --
_tCHAPTER NINE. The Janus-Faced Hominid --
_tPART FOUR. The Heretic's Way: Into the Mysterious Realm --
_tIntroduction to Part Four --
_tCHAPTER TEN. Some Strangeness in the Proportion --
_tAPPENDIX TO CHAPTER 10. A Compendium of Mysteries --
_tCHAPTER ELEVEN. The Beauty of Seeing More Than We Can Understand --
_tAPPENDIX TO CHAPTER 11. Welcome to the Inscrutable --
_tCHAPTER TWELVE. The Personal Mystery and the Impersonal God --
_tCHAPTER THRIRTEEN. Summa Mysteriologica --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFlipping convention on its head, Eric Dietrich argues that science uncovers awe-inspiring, enduring mysteries, while religion, regarded as the source for such mysteries, is a biological phenomenon. Just like spoken language, Dietrich shows that religion is an evolutionary adaptation. Science is the source of perplexing yet beautiful mysteries, however natural the search for answers may be to human existence.Excellent Beauty undoes our misconception of scientific inquiry as an executioner of beauty, making the case that science has won the battle with religion so thoroughly it can now explain why religion persists. The book also draws deep lessons for human flourishing from the very existence of scientific mysteries. It is these latter wonderful, completely public truths that constitute some strangeness in the proportion, revealing a universe worthy of awe and wonder.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aNatural theology.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Religion & Science.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/diet17102
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231539357
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