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Hardcover, 464 pages
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"Varghese, an
impresario of science-religion dialogues ... is perhaps
best known as co-editor of Cosmos, Bios, Theos...Varghese's
discussion of Madhvacharya and the theistic school of
Hinduism he represents adds a distinctive note."
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In The Wonder of the World, “Guru”
(Madhva Mitra) and “Geek” (Joe Levin) debate the fundamental questions
of existence. These are the starting points of their inquiry:
- What happened before the Big Bang?
- Does the universe have an IQ?
- How do electrons and photons, cells and proteins,
“know” what to do and what keeps them ticking?
- How do thoughts “cause” brain events?
- Is there a supra-scientific Theory of Everything?
- What did the pioneers and prophets of science
think of God?
Guru is an exponent of the God-equation that underlies
science and reason and Geek is an atheist scientist who holds
that science leaves no room for religion. Guru seeks to show that
we can “see” God here and now. Geek says, “show me.” Guru offers
to lead a pilgrimage from the invention of Nature to the Mind
of God. Join them now as they journey through the Wonder of the
World: space, time and motion; the quantum microverse; Big Bang
and other cosmologies; the saga of life on planet Earth and the
appearance of rational self-consciousness.
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Antony Flew
the world’s best-known atheist and a critic of theism for
more than 50 years
“You have in your book deployed abundant evidence indicating that
it is likely to be a very long time before such naturalistic [atheistic]
explanations [for the origin of life and reproduction] are developed,
if indeed there ever could be...I intend to reread The Wonder
of the World at leisure. I was hugely impressed and substantially
challenged by it.”
Charles H. Townes
Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the laser
“Varghese explores the basic and critical questions we face concerning
this remarkable and wonderful universe. Why are we here? Where
are we going? This is no doctrinaire treatise, but a sensitive,
profound and clear discussion of the important issues of our universe
and our existence, including questions, answers, and uncertainties.
It is written with a deep understanding of philosophy, spirituality,
and the complex science involved, yet expressed in a way which
is interesting and very understandable to the non-specialist.”
Arno Penzias
Nobel Prize winner; discovered Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation establishing the Big Bang theory
“Though I found myself arguing with both protagonists, the issues
raised and Guru’s lucid outline of modern science’s framework
of understanding, helped me to challenge and refine my own answers
to the ultimate questions that each one of us must ask.”
Robert Jastrow
founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Director
of the Mount Wilson Observatory and author of God and the Astronomers
“Congratulations on a fascinating book! I found The Wonder
of the World to be a highly illuminating and thought-provoking
discussion of all the important issues on the borderline between
science and religion.”
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About the Author
Roy Abraham Varghese is editor of the best-selling
Cosmos, Bios, Theos, which included contributions from
24 Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Time Magazine called
Cosmos “the year’s most intriguing book about God” and
The Science Teacher recommended it as “a significant
and thought-provoking contribution tothe literature on the relationship
of science and religion.” Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends,
a subsequent work, won a 1996 Templeton Book Prize for Outstanding
Books in Science and Natural Theology. Varghese was a panelist
at the science and religion forum in the Parliament of World Religions
held in Chicago in 1993 and an invitee and participant in the
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders
held at the United Nations in August 2000.
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