The author delves into the parallels between belief in science and belief in Christianity, showing how both belief systems provide similar answers to certain fundamental questions.

If you take the time to pay attention to, and make explicit, the basic assumptions and mental models that people are applying in the process of interpreting a given situation, such conflicts can more easily be resolved. Not only do many of today’s young people equate opinion with fact, but they also believe that opinions and feelings are more important than facts and that faith is like an ugly four-letter word.I also believe he presented atheists as a caricature that was not reflective of many atheists, though I’m sure some fit his stereotype. On the contrary: in “Regarding the Pain of Others” (2004), she disparages Fenton as a stooge of the British government, sent to Crimea “to give another, more positive impression of the increasingly unpopular war.

One cannot help but agree, even as one recoils at Morris’s complementary statement about a photograph being “one timeless instant of time” (180). In the same way, trustworthiness is rarely rewarded in low-trust societies; both high-trust and low-trust states of the world are sticky.Happily, this thematic narrowness is counterbalanced by a stylistic tendency in the opposite direction — namely, toward the tangential and panoptic.

Although several of his points the author emphasized felt repeated to the point of redundancy, I found it beneficial since I struggle with comprehension. But he goes out of his way to say that only the Christian God is real and that the Bible will set you free.Many atheists, and even the government, do not consider themselves a religion since they completely refuse to acknowledge the belief in any higher power but this guy goes out of his way to say that they are indeed a religious sect.