Religion in a scientific world.(The Ghost in the Universe: God in the Light of Modern Science)(Book Review)

From: The Skeptical Inquirer | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Ghost in the Universe: God in the Light of Modern Science. By Taner Edis. Prometheus Books, New York, 2002. ISBN 1-57392-977-8. 330 pp., Hardcover, $29.

Biologist H. Mien Orr once noted that discussions of science and religion have a way of turning otherwise intelligent people, as if by magic, into idiots. Few other topics inspire so many simplistic judgments based on even more simplistic concepts, and so mortally wound attempts at serious analysis. Taner Edis, a physics professor at Truman State University, intrepidly enters this intellectual climate with his new book ...

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