{"product_id":"9781493123841","title":"No Need for God","description":"Because Catholic Theologians consciously fail to revise and rebuild the intellectual architecture of their faith -- and because they deliberately refuse to accommodate the discoveries of science over the 3000 years since their God was invented by a tribe of unenlightened shepherds and farmers , they are forced to maintain an inflexible policy of deliberate \"obscurantism.\"  I use arguments from science (in layman's terms)- evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, anthropology, particle physics, astronomy, and cosmology- to demonstrate the validity of this proposition.   I have been a student (and victim) of Catholic Theology for more than 65 years. Over the last seven years (since my retirement) I have devoted nearly all of my time to learning and understanding the revelations of modem science - and to recognizing how incompatible they are with the \"infallible\" dogmas of the Pope and his minions.  I have a Ph.D. in English, and I have completed 42 years of teaching on the college level. I am now Professor emeritus of English at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts.  My book is devoted to the questions which all peoples have tried to answer since the dawn of civilization: \"Where do we come from? Where are we going to? What are we here for? What the hell's it all about?\" The findings of modem neuroscience prove- with carloads of experimental and observational data -- that, without the material substrate of the brain, there can be no consciousness: that is, there can be no soul that survives the death of the body. The correlative point is that we now have empirical proof that \"God\" did not magically inject a supernatural soul into a single-celled zygote at the precise moment of its conception- because there is no such entity. Catholic Theologians cannot recognize the truth empirically demonstrated by modem neuroscience -- the fact that there is no such entity as a supernatural soul. Their only recourse is to maintain a policy of inflexible obscurantism - in plainer words, a ''theology\" of systematic prevarication.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126468559088,"sku":"9781493123841","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781493123841_p0.jpg?v=1763663037","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781493123841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}