The Faith Healers
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Retrieved
- Dec 30, 2013
- ISBN
- DB2mPwAACA
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Science Provides, but Science has a Cost
Childbirth and infant mortality have decreased, lifetimes have lengthened, and medicine has improved the quality of life for many people on Earth. But science imposes, in exchange for its manifold gifts, a certain onerous burden. We are enjoined also to consider ourselves scientifically, to surmount as best we can our…
Three Types of Faith
philosopher Paul Kurtz, in his book The Transcendental Temptation, defines three distinctly different kinds of faith, derived from the amount (or total lack) of evidence drawn upon to support it. Kurtz defines the first kind as “intransigent faith.” By this is meant faith that will not be affected by any sort of…