God and the Brain: The Rationality of Belief

Does cognitive science show that religious belief is irrational?

Kelly James Clark brings together science and philosophy to examine some of humanity’s more pressing questions. Is belief in God, as Richard Dawkins claims, a delusion? Are atheists smarter or more rational than religious believers? Do our genes determine who we are and what we believe? Can our very creaturely cognitive equipment help us discover truth and meaning in life? Are atheists any different from Mother Teresa? Clark’s surprising answers both defend the rationality of religious belief and contribute to the study of cognitive science.

God and the Brain explores complicated questions about the nature of belief and the human mind.

Scientifically minded, philosophically astute, and reader-friendly, God and the Brain provides an accessible overview of some new cognitive scientific approaches to the study of religion and evaluates their implications for both theistic and atheistic belief.

• Am I Just My Brain? (Oxford Apologetics)
• How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith
• Are We Bodies or Souls?
• Finding Quiet: My Story of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought Peace
• Can Science Explain Everything? (Oxford Apologetics)
• Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion
• Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels
• That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
• Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology
• Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project