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Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 10

April 11, 2018 by Andy Walsh 5 Comments

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It makes sense to me that the mind is not fully reducible to the brain and its activity, and that mental states are causally meaningful. At the same time, it makes sense that the mind is mediated by the brain, arising from the numerous interactions of nerve cells and other biological entities, possibly as an outgrowth of sensory perception turned inward.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: blog book club, David Lindberg, dualism, mind, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, Ronald Numbers, science, science book club, Sigmund Freud, When Science and Christianity Meet

Can Science ‘Explain Away’ Religion?

September 13, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 12 Comments

In Chapter 18 of Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience (InterVarsity Press, 2013), Malcolm Jeeves[1] discusses the question “Can Science ‘Explain Away’ Religion?” with his fictional psychology student “mentee”. Have you wrestled with this question? How have you addressed it? Do you concur with what Jeeves offers? Can Science […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Mentoring Tagged With: biological reductionism, brain, Colin Blakemore, faith, Francis Crick, God, illusion, intervarsity press, Malcolm Jeeves, Mentoring, mind, Minds Brains Souls and Gods, neuroscience, psychology, religious beliefs, science and religion, Sigmund Freud, warfare metaphor

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