How We Believe Science, Skepticism, and the

Recent polls show that 96% of Americans believe in God. Why are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? In "How We Believe, "Michael Shermer presents the results of an exhaustive empirical study in which he asked 10,000 Americans how and why they believe and about details of their faith. The result offers fresh and startling insights into age-old questions.

Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and a contributing editor of and monthly columnist for Scientific American.

Preface: The God Questions: A Moral Dilemma for Dr. Laura
Introduction to the Paperback Edition
God and Belief	p. 1
Do You Believe in God?: The Difference in Our Answers and the Difference It Makes	p. 2
Is God Dead?: Why Nietzsche and Time Magazine Were Wrong	p. 16
The Belief Engine: How We Believe	p. 32
Why People Believe in God: An Empirical Study on a Deep Question	p. 59
O Ye of Little Faith: Proofs of God and What They Tell Us about Faith	p. 89
Religion and Science	p. 125
In a Mirror Dimly, Then Face to Face: Faith, Reason, and the Relationship of Religion and Science	p. 126
The Storytelling Animal: Myth, Morality, and the Evolution of Religion	p. 142
God and the Ghost Dance: The Eternal Return of the Messiah Myth	p. 171
The Fire That Will Cleanse: Millennial Meanings and the End of the World	p. 191
Glorious Contingency: Gould's Dangerous Idea and the Search for Meaning in the Age of Science	p. 214
Afterword to the Second Edition: God on the Brain	p. 239
What Does It Mean to Study Religion Scientifically? Or, How Social Scientists "Do" Science	p. 263
Why People Believe in God - The Data and Statistics	p. 267
A Bibliographic Essay on Theism, Atheism, and Why People Believe in God	p. 280
Notes	p. 285
Credits	p. 312
Index	p. 315
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How We Believe Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God

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