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A God that could be real : spirituality, science, and the future of our planet / Nancy Ellen Abrams.

by Abrams, Nancy Ellen, 1948-

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Beacon Press, [2015]

Religion and science.

Atheists -- United States -- Anecdotes.

9780807073391 (hc.)

0807073393 (hc.)

xxxi, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

"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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