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

Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]

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 Warrenton Adult Non-Fiction  215 ABR    AVAILABLE  ---
Description: xxxi, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them: too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason. Nancy Abrams, a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist, is among them. And yet, when she 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. Meanwhile her husband, famed astrophysicist Joel Primack, was helping create a new theory of the universe based on dark matter and dark energy, and Abrams was collaborating with him on two books that put the new scientific picture into a social and political context. She wondered, {28}Could anything actually exist in this strange new universe that is worthy of the name God?
Contents: Foreword / by Archbishop Desmond Tutu -- Foreword / by Paul Davies -- Introduction -- 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.
Subject: Religion and science.
God.
ISBN/ISSN: 9780807075951 (paperback)
0807075957 (paperback)

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