A great deal of the book examines how Abraham, Author. Varghese, an impresario of science-religion dialogues who is perhaps best known as co-editor of Cosmos, Bios, Theos , uses scientific insights to build a broad, if somewhat uneven, case for theistic belief.
Although Varghese is obviously familiar More from pw. The Best Books of PW Picks: Books of the Week. He currently lives in Garland, Texas and is a writer and editor of books on the relationship between science and religion. Conferences In he organized a conference in Dallas that brought together a number of Atheist and Theists to debate.
During this interview Varghese discussed "the many reasons that no one can truly doubt the existence of both heaven and hell, and the evidence used to support their existence. Audio available on Jim Harold's website. Books Varghese published Cosmos, bios, theos : scientists reflect on science, God, and the origins of the universe, life, and homo sapiens in , according to the website dedicated to his book The Wonder of the World ; Cosmos, bios, theos "included contributions from 24 Nobel Prize winners and was described as "the year's most intriguing book about God" by Time magazine.
Shortly after the book was released, the New York Times published an article by religious historian Mark Oppenheimer, who stated that Varghese had been almost entirely responsible for writing the book, and that Flew was in a serious state of mental decline, having great difficulty remembering key figures, ideas, and events relating to the debate covered in the book.
Varghese revels in science, from the weirdness of astrophysics, to the radiating blooms of life embedded in the fossil record, to the mind-blowing implications of quantum mechanics. He is entranced by the effectiveness of mathematics in the natural world. Eerily, everything before our eyes—and far more beyond—follows exacting laws and has attributes that can be expressed through numbers and exotic equations. This effectiveness presupposes profound thought, he believes. Profound thought presupposes infinite mind.
Infinite mind presupposes Varghese blames "a band of intellectuals trapped in vacuous abstractions and irrational ideologies" for stripping away wonder. They can't see the lush forest of the universe for the trees of scientific theory, experimentation and discovery.
We must be saved from these bandits who have blinded us to the glory and mystery of the world. Support Us The universe teems with intelligence at all levels, he says. This intelligence, expressed in the laws of nature, was implanted in the universe by an infinite mind. How can that come to be in a universe of undifferentiated matter? He calls the institute a forum to deliberate the debates raging in science, philosophy and religion. Its mission is to refute the arguments of atheists and those who perceive the world strictly in material terms.
He spreads this gospel via books, documentaries and symposiums. But well before the birth of the institute, Varghese was organizing and funding conferences featuring some of the world's greatest thinkers, beginning in at the Plaza of the Americas in Dallas. Of these, Cosmos, Bios, Theos, included contributions from 24 Nobel Prize winners and was described as "the year's most intriguing book about God" by Time magazine.
This was the best-selling book from the publishing house Open Court. Varghese was a panelist at the science and religion forum in the Parliament of World Religions held in Chicago in He has organized several conferences with dialogues between noted atheists and theists including a conference at Yale University on Artificial Intelligence.
He has worked on conferences and publications with some of the best-known atheists in the English-speaking world, ranging from Antony Flew and Sir Alfred Ayer of Oxford to Marvin Minsky of MIT as well as with prominent scientists including a number of Nobel Prize winners.
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