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PREFACE 7 I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOD; 17 WHY MAN CREATED GOD 19 The Birth of faith 19 The Theory of Evolution 20 Darwin’s Observations 20 The Workings of Evolution 22 The origin of Faith 23 Gods; Manifestations of Faith 25 Idol Gods 26 The Emergence of Monotheism and religion 29 GOD; the Scarecrow of Religion 31 The Emergence of the Three Main Religions 34 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF RELIGION 35 EMERGENCE OF THE THREE MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS 37 The Evolution of Religion 38 The Arrested Development of Judaism 39 3. A Brief History of Jerusalem; 4. The Home to Three Religions 40 A Few Jewish Greats and Achievers 43 Mayer Amschel Rothschild 43 Albert Einstein 45 Baruch de Spinoza 46 The Cabbala 47 The Rise of Christianity 48 The Episcopal Inquisition 51 Joan of Ark 53 Giordano Bruno 55 Galileo Galilee 56 15. The protestant reformation and the Splintering of the Christian Church 58 16. Witchcraft Trials of the Protestant Church 61 17. Islam Makes Its Debut 62 18. Mohammad the man 63 19. Mohammad’s Exploits on Behalf of Islam 66 20. The Koran 69 21. The Five Pillars of Islam 70 22. The Role of Women in Islam 72 23. Islam After Mohammad 73 24. Islam and the Christian Crusade Wars 77 25. Disbelief; the Consequence of the Excesses Of Religion 79 III. A BRIEF HISTORY OF DISBELEIF AND ATHEISM 81 ROOT CAUSES OF DISBELIEF AND ATHEISM 83 Of Myths and rituals 83 When Religious Rituals Go Haywire 89 An Out of Control Jewish Ritual 90 A Denigrating Muslim Ritual 91 A Blasphemous Christian Ritual 92 Religion as a Philosophy 93 Ancient Greek Philosophers; Democritus 94 Aristotle 94 Epicurus 96 Lucretius 97 Domination of Christianity and the dark Ages 98 The Age of Enlightenment; England 99 The Age of Enlightenment; France 104 Atheism Comes Out of the Closet 107 Enlightenment Arrives in America 108 Atheism and Disbelief Comes of Age globally 114 Disbelief in the 21st Century 117 IV. THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND GOD 123 GOD AND THE SCIENTIST 125 The Magnificent Four; Copernicus; Galileo, Kepler & Newton 126 Two Men who Rendered God Irrelevant in Science 132 Evolution vs. Creation – Intelligent Design 133 Science of the Twentieth Century and the Creation 138 The God Gene 140 V. SCIENCE AND THE CREATOR 143 THE CREATOR AND THE BIG BANG 145 1. In the Beginning there was the Creator 146 2. The Principal of Cause and Effect 147 Do We have a Soul 150 EPILOGUE 153 SOURCES 161 |
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