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A Jealous God: The Religion of Science and Its Vicious Assault on Traditional Faith Kindle Edition

by Pamela R. Winnick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A look at the personal and professional motivations behind the scientific community’s dogmatic rejection of religion and how this impacts the culture.

The age-old war between religion and science has taken a new twist. Once the dedicated scientist-martyr fought heroically against rigid religionists. But now the tables have turned, and it is established science crusading against religion, pushing atheistic agendas in the classroom, in textbooks, and in the media. This book shows how science has now become a religion of its own—an often fanatical one at that—furiously preaching atheism, punishing dissenters, dictating how and what we should think, and subtly inserting its worldviews in everything from education to entertainment. And, with stunning clarity, it proves that, with billions of dollars up for grabs in the race for stem cell research, intellectual integrity has been replaced with good old-fashioned greed. With sharp insight and completely original reporting, this book defiantly shows the extent to which science is beating down religion and how this systematic tyranny is unmistakably weakening culture and society.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007V95IYQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson (October 30, 2005)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 30, 2005
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 349 pages
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Pamela R. Winnick

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A graduate of Columbia University's Schools of Law and Journalism, and an award-winning writer, Pamela R Winnick turned to fiction twelve years ago. The seeds of The Spymaster's Mistress were planted when she was six. Her father told her that Jews had served in the American Revolution. Decades later, the idea popped into her mind to write a historical novel about a young Jewish woman who spies for her country by taking up with a high placed British officer and transmitting his military intelligence to the Americans in a series of coded letters.

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The Professor
5.0 out of 5 stars A need for Balance
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2005
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This work is part of the growing body of literature which argues that science has become a new religion. As a research scientist, and now a science professor, I have long resented such accusations but, especially after the growth of the intelligent design (ID) movement, I have seen scientists become more and more irrational, confirming this charge to some degree. I now feel that science is losing credibility with the public, and this book illustrates one important reason why. She covers embryonic stem cell research, the creation evolution controversy, and other hot topics. A good example is chapter 10, which retells the now 7 year old situation in Kansas with Darwinism. The new standards had as a goal to "encourage skepticism" about science conclusions by encouraging students to "identify the assumptions that underlie.. the theories taught to them" in science classes. In short "students should learn the limits of science" (all quotes from the Kansas standards cited on page 184). The science community went ballistic over this advice because they knew it applied to neo-Darwinism. Winnick wrote, as a result of these words in the standards, "the University of Kansas academics [tried] to frighten citizens into thinking that the failure to teach evolution would bring economic ruin to the state and jeopardize their children's futures" (page 191). Scientist Maxine Singer, president of the Carnegie Institution, actually "urged biology professors not to take positions in Kansas universities" (page 191). Similar charges were repeated hundreds of times in the next months. Winnick concluded that neoDarwists argued "Jobs would be lost, students wouldn't get into college, companies would flee the state all because students did not learn about evolution" (page 186). Of course evolution was still taught, just not with the dogmatism as before if the standards were followed (probably the standards will often be ignored). Winnick concludes that "It was as though the overall quality of education - English, grammar, history, math - was irrelevant to the state and country. Everything hinged on what students learned during two weeks of tenth-grade biology" (page 186). Winnick found not one example where a company moved out of the state due to the standards, or where a company refused to move in for the same reason. The hysterical predictions proved completely false.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sane Voice of Reason and of Faith rolls back the Monsters of Science
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014
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i have this book, bought from right here. Amazon dot com. an excellent read. a bit technical but understandable. i give it five stars with out any reservation whatsoever.
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David L. Bump
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge it by its title
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2006
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Despite it's strong title and the title of the last chapter ("The Road to Hell"), this book is actually very mild and straightforward. It does not portray "Science" as historically and actively seeking to overthrow religion. It merely illustrates a few of the modern areas in which the goals (especially monetary) of certain researchers run roughshod over practically any ethical or moral considerations, not just religious views. What may be most surprising to most readers is that the most recent and most vital cases involve demands for research to be publicly funded but totally free of regulation or even public scrutiny, through means (and perhaps even to ends) that are abhorrent to people from both left and right wings of politics and religion.
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Rocky Mountain Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2014
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Such a great book! I recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about the decline of America.
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Robert Richards
5.0 out of 5 stars A Slam Dunk!
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2005
Heard her on the radio here last week and had to buy the book, even though it's not the kind of thing I usually read. But I read it in one sitting. It' impossible to put down. I just loaned it to a friend who says the same thing.

Finally, a book filled with fact and measured analysis, not empty rhetoric. Winnick, an attorney and journalist, uses both skill-sets to adroitly slam the pretentious world of elite scientists and "ethicists" and expose their truly disturbing, sometimes racist agenda. Best of all, she does so using real people and situations, so complicated issues are presented in dramatic, readable form.

What's particularly great is how she's able to explain complicated science in very simple terms. For the first time, I understood embryonic stem-cell research and cloning and what all the fuss is about. While she clearly doesn't have a pro-life agendum against this work, she brilliantly demonstrates the puffery beneath it - and the economic interests. She's not a scientist but obviously she's done a huge amount of research, reading medical journals and so forth.

Her exposure of racism is amazing and based, again, on facts. She's taken the time to review hundreds of biology textbooks from the 1960s to the present, showing their subtle racist and anti-religious messages. Amazingly, these textbooks were written by those who pretended on the outside to be progresstive, but, as she shows, were scandalously racist.

She shows also how medical research has been so commercialized that it cares less and less about human safety. Her chapters on failed gene-transfer and fetal-tissue therapies are amazing. Medical researchers rush their products into human trial so they can make a killing in the marketplace, caring virtually nothing about people.

She also does a great job exposing California's Proposition 71, which raised billions for stem cell research. Unbelievable scientific fraud and Hollywood pretension.

Also great work describing "celebrity scientists" like Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan, who clearly think they are so much better than the rest of us. These guys are actually quite pathetic. Also great work on Paul Ehrlich, the population guy, whose racism is absolutely amazing. I remember him from way back, when I thought he was a cool guy. She shows what a fraud he was and how he used "science" to push his racist agenda.

Winnick has a great sense of humor. There are little touches that made me laugh out loud, like the rat that had been treated with humam stem cells, and Goober, the baboon, whose heart was implanted in a newborn child - in furtherance of "science."

This is not the work of some religious fanatic, but a brilliant woman who has decided to challenge conventional thinking about religion and science. Winnick is a really great writer who combines understatement, wit and fact. We need more books like this.

One of the best books I've read in a long time.
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