Reviews for Did Man Create God?: Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain?

The average rating for Did Man Create God?: Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain? based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-11-22 00:00:00 Alexis Rogodzinski The title of this book is unfortunate, in a way. It's bound to turn off many potential readers, and there's so much interesting and valuable scientific information here that could benefit people from a variety of faiths (or lack of faith). I was tempted to give the book five stars, but I couldn't do it because I don't think Comings entirely succeeded in acheiving his goal of arguing for a more rational spirituality. It's not that his arguments are irrational. It's that spirituality is, by definition, irrational. Comings seems to believe in Stephen J. Gould's concept of non-overlapping magesteria, but at the same time he show's so well that the concept of god (if not the existence of god) can be scientifically investigated. But he can't have it both ways! He also needs to deal with Karen Armstrong's persuasive argument that modern fundamentalism is a direct result of people attempting to be more rational about spirituality. All that being said, this book has a great deal to offer and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subjects of science and religion.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-02-11 00:00:00 Rud Ferd Ambitious but the author pulls it off - very, VERY impressive work of thought and scholarship. I can literally replace more than a dozen books on my bookshelf with this one volume.