Superstition : belief in the age of science /
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Author / Creator: | Park, Robert L. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. |
Description: | 215, [4] p. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Religion and science. Religion and sociology. Belief and doubt. Belief and doubt. Religion and science. Religion and sociology. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7366187 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Lessons from a tree
- Chapter 1. A Bigger Prize: In which we discover scientists of faith
- Chapter 2. The Secret of Life: In which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives
- Chapter 3. Miracle at Columbia: In which both sides pray for victory
- Chapter 4. Giving Up the Ghost: In which we search for the soul
- Chapter 5. The Silent Army: In which we search for an afterlife
- Chapter 6. The Tsunami God: In which the innocent suffer
- Chapter 7. The New Age: In which anything goes
- Chapter 8. Schrodinger's Grave: In which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition
- Chapter 9. The Barbary Duck: In which the body heals itself
- Chapter 10. The Deer: In which the placebo effect is explained
- Chapter 11. The Moral Law: In which we instinctively know right from wrong
- Chapter 12. The Last Butterfly: In which there is no place else to go
- Bibliography
- Index