The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1531888240 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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and Chappers Music. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Fuzzy Planets, Inc.. Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spiritualityThe late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos
He might have embedded Maxwell’s equations in Egyptian hieroglyphs. George Johnson is author of Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order and six other books. The Ten Commandments might have been engraved on the moon. He resides on the Web at talaya. Life took billions of years to take root on this planet, and it is an open question whether it made it anywhere else. To us carboniferous creatures, the dials may seem miraculously tweaked, but different physical laws might have led to universes harboring equally awe-filled forms of energy, cooking up anthropic arguments of their own. From Scientific American Sagan, writing from beyond the grave (actually his new book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, is an edited version of his 1985 Gifford Lectures), asks why, if God created the universe, he left the evidence so scant. Both Gingerich and Collins, along with mos
Massimo Pigliucci said Still Sagan, after all these years. Carl Sagan was a huge influence on my decision to embark on a scientific career when I was young, and perhaps more importantly, on slowly and painfully developing my critical thinking and skeptical outlook on life. I will forever be in his debt for that. This book is a collection (edited by his wife, Ann Druyan) based on a series of lectures he gave in 1985 on "natural theology." While the science is of course a bit out of date (despite Druyan's occasional notes), it doesn't really matter. These essays are about the meaning of the scientific enterprise and how it relates to religion, and those are much less dependent on last minute upda. "My favorite." according to Alejandro Estrada. According to Wikipedia, the Gifford Lectures were established on 1887 to "promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology (supported by science and not dependent on the miraculous) in the widest sense of the term -- in other words, the knowledge of God."The lectures are given at several Scottish universities and a Gifford lectures' appointment is one of the most prestigious honors in Scottish academia. They are normally presented as a series over an academic year and given with the intent that the edited content be published in book form. A number of these works have become classics in the fields of theology or philosophy and their re. Buy it, you won't regret it Penélope Cruz Everything you can expect from a book written by Sagan and more