Skeptics And True Believers: Exhilarating Connection Between Science & Religion - Hardcover

Raymo, Chet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385257554 ISBN 13: 9780385257558

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, 1998

Synopsis

Science has proved a spectacularly successful way of knowing the world. Yet many people reject one of its basic points: we are ephemeral parts of a silent universe that is vastly larger than ourselves.

Although Chet Raymo disapproves of fundamentalist and New Age beliefs and is skeptical of traditional religion, he argues that science and religion can be mutually reinforcing ways of experiencing the world.

In his view, words like God, grace, soul, and sacrament can retain currency in an age of science.

Using dynamic and thought-provoking stories - a hilarious episode of alien abduction that didn't happen, or a walk on fire - Raymo argues that science should be embraced by religion, instead of distrusted. He also shows that the wondrous universe revealed by science can hardly fail to excite religious feeling. There are no miracles but one, he writes: the miracle of the creation itself, which is the primordial source of all religious feeling.

About this title

About the Author

Chet Raymo is a professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, and is a popular science columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of eight books on science, including 365 Starry Nights and The Soul of the Night, both selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385257554
• ISBN 13: 9780385257558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English