Ebook: How we believe: science, skepticism, and the search for God

Preface : the God question : a moral dilemma for Dr. Laura -- Introduction to the paperback edition -- Do you believe in God? : the difference in our answers and the difference it makes -- Is God dead? : why Nietzsche and Time magazine were wrong -- The belief engine : how we believe -- Why people believe in God : an emprical study on a deep question -- O ye of little faith : proofs of God and what they tell us about faith -- In a mirror dimly, then face to face : faith, reason, and the relationship of religion and science -- The storytelling animal : myth, morality, and the evolution of religion -- God and the ghost dance : the eternal return of the messiah myth -- The fire that will cleanse : millennial meanings and the end of the world -- Glorious contingency : Gould's dangerous idea and the search for meaning in the age of science -- Afterword to the second edition : God on the brain -- Appendix 1. What does it mean to study religion scientifically? : or, how social scientists "do" science -- Appendix 2. Why people believe in God -- the data and statistics -- A bibliographic essay on theism, atheism, and why people believe in God.