Christianity in the Light of Science: Critically Examining the World's Largest Religion

This is the title to my next anthology as chosen by Prometheus Books. It's a book honoring Victor Stenger's writings, who is one of the New Atheists in that his book, God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist,was also a NY Times Bestseller. The book will include his last essay, which he submitted for it before he died. My publisher wanted a smaller book this time around, so it's to be about 380 pages. They just announced it'll be available on July 26, 2016. You can pre-order it online!Although I'm not done celebrating the release of my recent book, here we go again. Below, for your consideration, are a list and description of the excellent contributors (in alphabetical order).

Contributors:

Dr. Aaron Adair, is an assistant professor at Merrimack College, North Andover, MA., and the author of The Star of Bethlehem: A Skeptical View (2013).

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Dr. Rebecca Bradley, earned a PhD in Archaeology from Cambridge University, and worked variously as an archaeologist in Egypt and the Sudan. She writes for Skeptic Ink, http://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/

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Dr. Robert R. Cargill is Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at The University of Iowa, having earned a Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA. He is a biblical studies scholar, classicist, archaeologist, author, and digital humanist. His research includes study in the Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, literary criticism of the Bible and the Pseudepigrapha, and the Ancient Near East

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Dr. David Eller earned a doctorate degree from Boston University in anthropology and taught anthropology in Denver, Colorado. He has written two textbooks titled Violence and Culture: A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approach (2005); and Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate (2007). He has published two books on atheism, Natural Atheism (2004); and Atheism Advanced (2008). His most recent work represents the culmination of twenty years of research on religion and violence: Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence across Culture and History (2010).

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Dr. Abby Hafer has a doctorate in zoology from Oxford University, who teaches Human Anatomy and Physiology at Curry College in Milton, MA. She’s a popular public speaker and author of, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer—Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not.

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Phil Halper is the producer of the popular youtube series “Before the Big Bang” which features interviews with some of the world’s leading cosmologists including Gabriele Veneziano (the father of string theory), Abhay Ashtekar (founder of loop quantum gravity) and Sir Roger Penrose (co author of the classic Penrose Hawking singularity theorems). He earned a degrees from Manchester University, Southampton University, and a diploma in astronomy from University College London.

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Guy P. Harrison has degrees in history and anthropology and has written several critically acclaimed books on skepticism and belief, including, 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a god (2008), 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian (2013), 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think are True (2013), Think: Why You Should Question Everything (2013) and Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser (2015).

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John W. Loftus earned M.A., M.Div., and Th.M. degrees in Philosophy, Theology, and the Philosophy of Religion, the last of which was under William Lane Craig. John also studied in a Ph.D. program at Marquette University for a year and a half in the area of Theology and Ethics. He is the author and editor of a bunch of books ;-)

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Dr. Julien Musolino is a Franco-American cognitive scientist and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, where he directs the Psycholinguistics Laboratory, and holds a dual appointment in the Department of Psychology and the internationally renowned Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of over 30 scientific articles and his research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He is the author of The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul Beliefs (2015).

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Dr. Ali Nayeri received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from IUCAA in 1999. He was appointed as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Physics at MIT for 2 years and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics for an additional year. Since then, he has been a Research Affiliate at MIT. He was also a Research Scientist and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Fundamental Theory at University of Florida. He is currently with the Harvard Physics Department in Cambridge, MA. His fields of research include Early Universe and Inflation, brane and string cosmology, Semi-Classical Theory of Gravity, and Alternative Cosmologies.

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Sharon Nichols is a retired Assoc. Professor. Geography, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn Il., former President of the Illinois Geographical Society; a National Council For Geographic Education (NCGE) Outstanding Faculty, Distinguished Alumni, South Dakota State University and was awarded The American Heritage Award by Americans United for her part in an ACLU lawsuit against a 10 Commandments Monument in Haskell Co., OK.

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Joe Nickell has been called "the modern Sherlock Holmes." Since 1995 he has been the world's only full-time, professional, science-based paranormal investigator. His careful, often innovative investigations have won him international respect in a field charged with controversy. He has written numerous books, including Relics of the Christ (2007) and The Science of Miracles: Investigating the Incredible (2013).

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Jonathan MS Pearce earned a degree from the University of Leeds, a PGCE from the University of St Mary’s, Twickenham and a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Wales, Trinity St David. Pearce has written Free Will? An investigation into whether we have free will or whether he was always going to write this book (2010), The Little Book Of Unholy Questions (2011), and The Nativity: A Critical Examination (2012). Working as a publisher and teacher, he lives in Hampshire, UK with his partner and twin boys.

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Dr. Robert M. Price, is a member of the Jesus Seminar and author of numerous books including Deconstructing Jesus (2000), The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition? (2003), The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind (2007), Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis of Biblical Authority (2009), and he co-authored with Ed Suominen, Evolving out of Eden: Christian Responses to Evolution (2013).

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René Salm is the author of The Myth of Nazareth The Invented Town Of Jesus (2008) and NazarethGate: Quack Archaeology, Holy Hoaxes, and the Invented Town of Jesus (2015). He maintains several websites including Mythicist Papers (www.mythicistpapers.com) and www.nazarethmyth.info.

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Dr. Victor J. Stenger (1935-2014) was emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii. He was a prolific author with 12 critically acclaimed books that interface between physics and cosmology, and philosophy, religion, and pseudoscience. His 2007 book God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist was a New York Times bestseller. His last book was God and the Multiverse (2014).

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Ed Suominen is a retired engineer (B.S.E.E., University of Washington, 1995), patent agent, and inventor with over a dozen patents. After 40 years as a Christian fundamentalist, he learned about evolution through some engineering work and underwent an intellectual awakening that resulted in the book Evolving out of Eden: Christian Responses to Evolution (2013), co-authored with Dr. Robert M. Price (2013).

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Dr. Valerie Tarico earned a doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Iowa and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of the book, Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light (2010), and chapters in The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (2010), The End of Christianity (2011), and Christianity is Not Great (2014) edited by John W. Loftus. She founded WisdomCommons.org and writes regularly for online news and opinion sites including AlterNet and The Huffington Post. Her articles can be found at AwayPoint.Wordpress.com.

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Frank Zindler is the author of the Foreword to this book. To read about him click here.

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