Concepts: A Prototheist Quest for Science-minded Skeptics of Catholic, and Other Christian, Jewish & Muslim Backgrounds"Concepts" is a search for theism's roots - coined prototheism - a science of religion. Its notion is: Belief in God is a misconception of the Life Urge emerging from deep in human nature. "Concepts" traces Life's trajectory - from Earth's origin, to consciousness, to today's runaway material culture. |
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Contents
Some Preliminaries | 1 |
Gods | 9 |
Christianitys Beginnings | 17 |
Earths Beginnings | 43 |
Lifes Beginnings | 57 |
Animal Evolution 71 | 73 |
Human Evolution | 87 |
Un to CONSCIOUSness | 105 |
Tools | 185 |
Society | 209 |
Protestant Eastern Christians | 253 |
Prototheism for Skeptical Muslims | 261 |
13 | 263 |
Notes and References | 267 |
14 | 270 |
Some Fundamentals | 279 |
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