Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If the Universe Doesn't

by Michael Shermer and Ralph Lewis

Book Overview

A psychiatrist presents a compelling argument for how human purpose and caring emerged in a spontaneous and unguided universe.Can there be purpose without God? This book is about how human purpose and caring, like consciousness and absolutely everything else in existence, could plausibly have emerged and evolved unguided, bottom-up, in a spontaneous universe.A random world--which according to all the scientific evidence and despite our intuitions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163388385X
• ISBN13: 9781633883857
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"