The Phantom God: What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe

by John C. Wathey

Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, most have strayed from the scientific method.

In The Phantom God, computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey, Ph.D., tackles this problem head-on, exploring religious feelings not as the direct perception by the brain of some supernatural realm, nor as the pathological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633888061
• ISBN13: 9781633888067
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"