David Comings

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Monrovia, CA

United States

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Something About Me and My Book:

The book, "Did Man Create God?" has won the USABestBook award for both Religion and Science, and the Mom's Award for excellence in family books. Dr. David Comings, an internationally renown physician, human geneticist and neuroscientist, proposes that spirituality is genetically hardwired into a specific part of the brain, is pleasurable, is critical to the evolution and survival of man, and will never go away. Michael Shermer called this the most detailed and up-to-date science ever generated on the subject of religion and suggested it will be the definitive scientific reference on religion for some time to come. In an era when politicians are judged on the basis of the strength of their belief in God, when schools are urged to teach Intelligent Design, and when religious terrorists threaten the existence of Western civilization it is critical to dispassionately examine the question - Did man create God? A wide range of issues are examined including intelligent answers to intelligent design; the relevance of modern cosmology to the existence or non-existence of god; the role of genes in spirituality; innate morality, the problem of evil, and many others. The longest chapter examines the evidence for the role of the temporal lobes in man’s innate spirituality. While written by a non-theist, it is not hostile to faith per se and strives to allow readers to develop a rational spirituality in which the fact-based rational brain and the faith-based spiritual brain can live in peace.

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http://www.didmancreategod.com

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