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seayakin
30th June 2009, 11:23 AM
Has anyone read "Fingerprints of God" by Barbara Bradley Hagerty. She apparently looks at spirituality from the scientific point of view (just read a review but not the book). It sounds like in the end she becomes attached to some kind of theism. Some of the reviews I've read have been good.

(I need to finish 2 other books before I can read this one but curious what other skeptic's take is on it.)

Beerina
30th June 2009, 11:56 AM
I see the fingerprints of God whenever I see a news report of a child being raped and murdered. I see the fingerprints of God whenever I see a story of a 16 year old who's been kept in a closet since age 3. I see the fing


Sorry. Just feeling particularly discongenial to apologists for religion today. :(

paiute
30th June 2009, 12:37 PM
Has anyone read "Fingerprints of God" by Barbara Bradley Hagerty. She apparently looks at spirituality from the scientific point of view (just read a review but not the book). It sounds like in the end she becomes attached to some kind of theism. Some of the reviews I've read have been good.

(I need to finish 2 other books before I can read this one but curious what other skeptic's take is on it.)

You can't "look at spirituality" with science unless you bend both beyond recognition.

Steelmage
30th June 2009, 01:21 PM
There is a big difference what a skeptic would think as a atheist would think. In this case it would be close, but coming from different ways of thinking. That is, that her conclusions are base on wishing thinking and not real evidence.

Tsukasa Buddha
30th June 2009, 02:24 PM
I see the fingerprints of God whenever I see a news report of a child being raped and murdered. I see the fingerprints of God whenever I see a story of a 16 year old who's been kept in a closet since age 3. I see the fing


Sorry. Just feeling particularly discongenial to apologists for religion today. :(

Win! :D