How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
 

How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God

by Michael Shermer

One hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. "In fact ... the opposite is has occurred," Shermer writes in his introduction. "Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche proclaimed, but he has never been more alive."
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Here Michael Shermer takes on the third rail, the elephant in the room, religion. Even though the book is called "how" we believe, it's also a lot of "why."

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