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Abrams, Nancy Ellen, 1948-
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Religion and science.
Spirituality.
God.
Atheists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Abrams, Nancy Ellen, 1948-
Religion and science.
Spirituality.
God.
Atheists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
MARC Display
A
God
that
could
be
real
:
spirituality
,
science
, and the
future
of
our
planet
/ Nancy Ellen Abrams.
by
Abrams, Nancy Ellen, 1948-
Beacon Press, [2015]
Call #:
215 A161g
Subjects
Religion and
science
.
Spirituality
.
God
.
Atheists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780807073391 (hc.)
0807073393 (hc.)
Description:
xxxi, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
God
evolves -- A
God
that can't be
real
-- A
God
that
could
be
real
-- Is there a spiritual world? -- Does
God
answer prayers? -- Is there an afterlife? -- Renewing
God
, renewing religion -- Planetary
God
, planetary morality -- A big picture for
our
time.
Summary:
"Traditional religion alienates many of us, including Nancy Abrams, a philosopher of
science
, lawyer, and lifelong atheist. Religion can perpetuate conflict, vilify
science
, and undermine reason. Yet, when the author turned to the recovery community to face a personal struggle, she found that imagining a higher power gave her a new freedom. Intellectually, this was quite surprising. In this book, Abrams explores a new way of thinking about
God
. She shows why an omniscient, omnipotent
God
that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with
science
-- but that this doesn't preclude a
God
that can comfort and empower us. Moving away from traditional arguments for
God
, Abrams finds something worthy of the name "
God
" in the new
science
of emergence: just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants,
God
, she argues, is an "emergent phenomenon" that arises from the complexity of humanity's collective aspirations. This
God
did not create the universe -- it created the meaning of the universe"--Provided by publisher.
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Dartmouth North Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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