By James T. Houk
ISBN-10: 163388323X
ISBN-13: 9781633883239
Turning particularly to Christian fundamentalism, the writer analyzes the numerous weaknesses of what he calls a faith-based epistemology, really as such considering is displayed in young-earth creationism, the reliance on revelation and subjective reports as a resource of spiritual wisdom, and the reverence accorded the Bible regardless of its noticeable flaws. As he issues out, the matter with such cultural wisdom typically is that it truly is non-falsifiable and eventually has no lasting price unlike the data-based and falsifiable wisdom produced via technology, which maintains to turn out its worthy as a competent resource of actual information.
Concluding that there's no destiny to the fundamentalist frame of mind in a various international the place faith usually exacerbates conflicts, he makes a powerful case for cause and mutual tolerance.
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