Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us About God (Wonders That Witness/Fred Heeren, Vol 1) [Hardcover]

Fred Heeren (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wonders | Publication Date: April 4, 2004

In exclusive interviews, Stephen Hawking, NASA leaders, and Nobel prize-winning astronomers talk about how their discoveries have affected life's big questions. Topics include the creation and fine-tuning of the universe, the purpose of life, and the nature of God. The humor and multimedia format make this title make it especially appealing. 98 photos.

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In Show Me God: What The Message From Space Is Telling Us About God, science writer Fred Heeren interviews today's foremost cosmologists in order to explore how the latest findings bear upon the ultimate questions we all ask. In doing so, he introduces people of faith to the ways of astronomy, and enlightens astronomy enthusiasts in the ways of faith. Skeptics and believers are both led to ask: Have cosmologists stumbled upon evidence for God? Scientists see the usefulness of a work like this in "removing the barriers between faith and science". Written in a down-to-earth style with humor and a multi-media approach, this newly revised edition contains 100 new pages that include recent developments in the search for extraterrestrial life and the discovery of primeval galaxies. Show Me God is a fascinating tour-de-force for anyone with an interest in astronomy and religion. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 397 pages
• Publisher: Day Star Productions; 2 Rev Sub edition (April 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885849524
• ISBN-13: 978-1885849526
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #542,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating reading!, October 2, 2000

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Luis Gallo "Luis Eduardo Gallo" (Valencia, Estado Carabobo Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us About God (Wonders That Witness/Fred Heeren, Vol 1) (Hardcover)

This book makes contemporary cosmology accessible to all of us. From Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) to Robert Jastrow (director of Mt. Wilson Observatory) and from Alan Guth (father of the inflationary Big Bang Theory) to Nobel Prize winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, you will hear the ideas of some of the leading scientists of our time about God and the Cosmos and how they seem to be related to one another, providing what for some of those same scientists are the most compelling evidences for the existence of God. Finding common ground between Science and Theology book author Fred Heeren interviews today's best known cosmologists, to provide proof that sometime in the past, everything came out of nothing or, according to his line of thought, from God Himself. The book also deals with wisdom with one of the most intriguing aspects of modern science, extraterrestrial intelligence, analyzing the "messages from space" and exploring the oldest and most difficult questions about our creation and evolution in the context of a cosmic grand scheme that as Heeren himself believes, shows the Hand of God. A fascinating book!

46 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection -- but where is Volume 2?, July 19, 2002

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Jack W. Crenshaw "bird lover" (Saint Johns, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us About God (Wonders, 1) (Paperback)

One can always tell if a book on science is written by a Christian, because there will always be militant atheists ready to rate it as terrible, motivated by nothing more than their usual knee-jerk reaction.

_THINKING_ people -- including thinking scientists, agnostics, people of many different faiths, and none at all -- understand that one should read a book for its content, and not for what one believes the author's motives might be. Atheists and those who support what Johnson calls naturalism tend to claim the high ground of reason and logic, dismissing believers as some kind of fundamentalist fanatics who can't read. Ironically, in this case, as with many recent books (e.g., Ross, Dembski, Behe), it seems that it's the believers who are prepared to read about, and accept new data, and fundamentalist atheism doing its best to deny the evidence. It's they who cling to a century-old worldview as a matter of faith.

In this book, Fred Heeren has assembled one of the most carefully thought-out, carefully researched books on the relationship between science and belief in a long time. His presentation is virtually impossible to find fault with. The end result is a devastating demonstration that, even if we wanted to, we could not ignore the fact that something seems to be going on out there in the Universe; something that neither Newton's equations nor Maxwell's can explain. As many other reviewers have pointed out, only a fundamentalist atheist determined to ignore all contrary evidence can muster the energy to dispute the evidence.

One final thought: Negative reviewers claim that Heeren's purpose is to proselytize. I thought I read the same book, and I believe I read it pretty thoroughly. But I see _NO_ evidence that Heeren's goal is to convert anyone. He merely gives a lot of data, all well researched, thoroughly documented, and supported by virtually every competent scientist on the planet. If this is proselytization, I need a new dictionary.

My only complaint about this book is that Heeren promised it to be the first of several. I keep checking Amazon.com for the sequels, to no avail.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Show Me God" by Fred Heeren, October 12, 1997

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This review is from: Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us About God (Wonders That Witness/Fred Heeren, Vol 1) (Hardcover)

"Show Me God" wonderfully describes the most complicated theories in modern astrophysics - but it does so in the simplest way imaginable. But this book is about much more than astrophysics made easy, it is a book that shows the average reader that science does not have all the answers. Fred Heeren shows how it is for all practical purposes impossible to explain the creation of the Universe without factoring God into the equation. This book will show any reader with an open mind that many modern theories of the Universe assume many facts not in evidence and that only God can fill in these theories to create the Universe that we live in. The author steps back to carefully consider the recent "Mars rock" and concludes that NASA may have jumped the gun when they declared that this rock was proof of life on the Red Planet. He scientifically discusses the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe - and the results might surprise you based on what many other scientists are saying. In its simplest form, Fred Heeren shows that science is not disproving the existence of God, but that science must turn to God to explain the origin of the Universe. Those who have lost faith in religion should certainly read this book, it is truly out of this world. -Cody Oliver