Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Further Reading
1.
How Science Works:
David Goodstein.
www.cs.wisc.edu/~dluu/data/papers
. A useful discus-
sion about the criteria that distinguish the practice of science.
2.
Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors.
Pascal
Boyer. Published by Vintage, 2001. ISBN 0 099 282763. This topic discusses the evidence for
the intentionality argument for the origin of religious beliefs.
3.
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
. Scott Attran. Published by
Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN-13 978-0-19-517803-6. An anthropologist's view of the
naturalistic origins of religious beliefs.
4.
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
Daniel C. Dennett. Published by Allen
Lane 2006. ISBN-13 978-0-713-99789-7. This topic argues that religious beliefs originate from
the cognitive systems that have evolved in the human brain.
5.
How We Believe; The Search for God in an Age of Science.
Michael Shermer. Published by
W.H Freeman and Company, 2000. ISBN 0-7167-4161-x. This topic addresses the question as
to why people believe in God, as determined from surveys, and examines the validity of the
different reasons they give.
6.
The Origins of Virtue.
Matt Ridley. Published by the Penguin Group, 1996. ISBN 0-670-86357-
2. This topic discusses the origins of co-operation as an evolutionary strategy that led to human
society.
