How We Believe: Science and the Search for God by Michael Shermer

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  • Pub. Date: October 2003
  • 368pp
  • Sales Rank: 130,751

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    • Pub. Date: October 2003
    • Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 368pp
    • Sales Rank: 130,751

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Biography

    Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, and host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. Author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Thing, he teaches the history of science, technology, and evolutionary thought at Occidental College. He livesin Los Angeles, California.

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    September 18, 2008: Finally, someone intelligent enters the world of sense. This is one of the best books I have ever read. It's brilliant and it's true.

    Good overview of an interesting topicby Anonymous

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    October 17, 2006: Many books have come out recently on this subject, but Shermer's is one of the better ones, covering a great deal of ground without falling into fundamentalist rhetoric. As founder of The Skeptics Society, he is much better at avoiding interjecting his own 'faith' into his books as logic or science than most authors writing on this topic seem to be.