Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness
Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Religion tells us that God is love but neuroscience counters with love as a well-timed trickle of transmitters and hormones. In the 21st century, is it necessary to discard our traditional...
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Religion tells us that God is love but neuroscience counters with love as a well-timed trickle of transmitters and hormones. With doctorates in both mathematics and theology, Kevin Sharpe explores these notions and asks the question Has Science Displaced the Soul?
1Happiness and spiritual traditions12Happiness and contemporary science13Interlude 1 : an unhappy conflagration273Love and spiritual traditions414Love and contemporary science55Interlude 2 : an unloving conflagration695Evolutionary psychology : a science background796Evolutionary psychology : a spiritual background91Interlude 3 : Philip Hefner's conflagration band-aid103Interlude 4 : Ted Peters' conflagration band-aid1137Divine projections1258Scientific hypotheses135Interlude 5 : happiness, love, and the divine147
\ The European LegacyIt is a reflection of and a tribute to Sharpe's scholarship that he challenges our contemporary and obsolete manner of conceiving the subject. I look forward to Sharpe and Bryant's future elaboration of the Divine and the dialog that they envision between science, values, and spirituality.\ \
