To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

The central idea of the book of Amos is that God puts his people on the same level as the surrounding nations-God expects the same purity of them all.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

The book opens with the Israelites in the land which God has promised to them but worshiping " foreign gods " instead of Yahweh, the god of Israel, and with the Canaanites still present everywhere.

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

This interpretation is supported with the argument that there is nowhere else in the book where Job express a wish for bodily resurrection, only for someone to intervene as an " umpire ", a " vindicator ", a " go ' el ", on his behalf as an impartial judge between himself and God in the present.

The book opens with a vision of Yahweh, God of Israel ; moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as Yahweh's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

In his book The Science Delusion ( 2012 ) he wrote that the philosophy of the organism ( organicism ) has updated the ideas of animism as it treats all of nature as alive.

Richard Dawkins cited Jaynes ' ideas in his book The God Delusion, stating " It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between ...".

Richard Dawkins is harshly critical of theology, creation and intelligent design in his book The God Delusion in which he contends that an appeal to intelligent design can provide no explanation for biology because it not only begs the question of the designer's own origin ; but an intelligent designer must itself be far more complex and difficult to explain than anything it is capable of designing.

* Several pages are devoted to cargo cults in Richard Dawkins ' book The God Delusion.

In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins states that he agrees with Robert Hinde's Why Good is Good, Michael Shermer's The Science of Good and Evil, Robert Buckman's Can We Be Good Without God?

Richard Dawkins points to religion as a source of violence ( notably in his book, The God Delusion ), and considers creationism a threat to biology.

Richard Dawkins alluded to unicorns in this connection in his 2006 book The God Delusion, writing that " Russell's teapot, of course, stands for an infinite number of things whose existence is conceivable and cannot be disproved.

The movement has continued to grow and experienced accelerated registrations following media debate around " new atheism " prompted by a series of book releases in late 2006 including The God Delusion, Breaking the Spell, God Is Not Great, The End of Faith, and Letter to a Christian Nation.

In this vein, Richard Dawkins dedicates a chapter of his book, The God Delusion to criticism of the God-of-the-gaps fallacy.

The prize has been criticized: British biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins said in his book The God Delusion that the prize was given " usually to a scientist who is prepared to say something nice about religion ".

Unweaving the Rainbow ( subtitled " Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder ") is a 1998 book by Richard Dawkins, discussing the relationship between science and the arts from the perspective of a scientist.

In his book The God Delusion, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins cites Mills ' writings as " admirable work.

Richard Dawkins referenced Letting Go of God several times in his book The God Delusion.

In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins ( an evolutionary biologist ) repeatedly criticizes the Templeton Foundation, referring to the Templeton Prize as " a very large sum of money given ... usually to a scientist who is prepared to say something nice about religion.

His book: The Dawkins Delusion?

( 2007 ) ISBN 0-281-05927-6 ( A critical response to Dawkins ' book The God Delusion )

Another example of the term " Slacktivism " appeared in Evgeny Morozov ’ s book, " Net Delusion: How Not To Liberate the World ".

Henning Pauly has stated on his site that a future Frameshift album will also be adapted from a Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion, but will feature two vocalists, Pauly has stated that they are: " Magali Luyten from Belgium ( Virus IV, Beautiful Sin, Ayreon ) and Dan Swano from Sweden ( Nightingale, Edge of Sanity, Ayreon and many more )".

Richard Dawkins discussed Jaynes's theory in his recent book The God Delusion.

In his televised interview with the evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, Crawley challenged the use of the term " delusion " in Dawkins's best-selling book The God Delusion.

In two articles in 2006 and 2007, he criticized Richard Dawkins and his book The God Delusion for what he saw as an extremist tone and for alleged lapses in logic, imagination and understanding.

* The Creation: An Appeal To Save Life on Earth, a 2006 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

The term " ecology " () is of a more recent origin and was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( 1866 ).

In 1962, marine biologist and ecologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring helped to mobilize the environmental movement by alerting the public to toxic pesticides, such as DDT, bioaccumulating in the environment.

In his 2008 book Only A Theory, biologist Kenneth R. Miller challenges Behe's claim that the mousetrap is irreducibly complex.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

In his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins grapples with the question of why pain has to be so very painful.

English philosopher, sociologist, biologist and writer Herbert Spencer wrote of the many aspects of the character of the state as opposed to the character of man in his book The Man Versus The State.

The Mismeasure of Man is a book by Harvard evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould, published in 1981.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins employs the typing monkey concept in his book The Blind Watchmaker to demonstrate the ability of natural selection to produce biological complexity out of random mutations.

( At the time the book was published, biologist J. V.

In 1957 book New Bottles for New Wine, English evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley wrote:

This perspective is presented formally and in detail by the evolutionary biologist Bjørn Grinde in his book Darwinian Happiness.

* Rachel Carson, ( May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964 ) a marine biologist who became a famous writer, best known for her 1962 book Silent Spring, which confronted the chemical industry and helped to spur legislation for regulation and control of DDT and other industrially and domestically used substances.

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist E. O. Wilson.

The German fisheries biologist Friedrich Wilhelm Tesch, an eel expert and author of the book " The Eel " ( ISBN 0-632-06389-0 ), conducted many expeditions with high-tech instrumentation to follow eel migration, first down the Baltic, then along the coasts of Norway and England, but finally the transmitter signals were lost at the continental shelf when the batteries ran out.

McKean's most recent projects are directing an original feature called Luna, and a book with the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science is a book by biologist Paul R. Gross and mathematician Norman Levitt, published in 1994.

* Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book written by biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the gap between " the two cultures "

The 1981 TV series and some editions of the book have Masen speculating that the triffids were the creation of the real-life Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko.

Fisherian runaway is a model of sexual selection, first proposed by British evolutionary biologist R. A. Fisher in 1915, and expanded upon in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, that suggests an explanation for sexual selection of traits that do not obviously increase fitness of survival, based upon a positive feedback " runaway " mechanism.

Linguist and former veterinary biologist Will Graves, who spent 42 years reading and compiling information on wolves in Russia from news reports, scientific articles, and interviews with Russian biologists, game managers and hunters flatly stated in an interview with journalist Peter Metcalf " His book is fiction ".