God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion

PART ONE: WHY WOULD A TECHIE BELIEVE IN GOD?

1. How Techies Believe.

2. Where God Is Useful.

3. Good Science, Bad Philosophy.

PART TWO: WHY WOULD A TECHIE JOIN AN ORGANIZED RELIGION?

4. Big Science, Big Religion.

5. The Functions of Religion.

6. The Dangers of Organized Religion.

PART THREE: WHAT IS THE TECHIE EXPERIENCE OF RELIGION?

7. Talking to Techies.

8. Listening to Techies.

9. The Rule of Rules.

PART FOUR: WHY WOULD A TECHIE BE A CHRISTIAN?

10. What Does the Truth Look Like?

11. The Root of Christianity.

12. A Techie's Contemplation on the Trinity.

13. The Supernatural in Nature.

PART FIVE: THE CONFESSION OF A VATICAN TECHIE.

14. Why Would a Techie Be a Catholic?

15. How I Stay a Catholic.

Acknowledgments.

The Author.

Index.