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On the one hand, we have traditional science, based on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness, with a belief that reality consists solely of matter and energy, that everything can be measured in the laboratory or observed by a telescope. If it can’t, it doesn’t exist. On the other hand, we have traditional religious dogma concerning God that fails to take into account evolution, a 4.6 billion-year-old Earth, and the conflicting claims of the world’s religions.

In The God Theory, Bernard Haisch discards both these worldviews and proposes a theory that provides purpose for our lives while at the same time is completely consistent with everything we have discovered about the universe and life on Earth. To wit, Newton was right — there is a God — and wrong — this is not merely a material world. Haisch proposes that science will explain God and God will explain science. Consciousness is not a mere epiphenomenon of the brain; it is our connection to God, the source of all consciousness. Ultimately it is consciousness that creates matter and not vice versa. New discoveries in physics point to a background sea of quantum light underlying the universe. The God Theory offers a worldview that incorporates cutting-edge science and ancient mystical knowledge. This is nothing less than a revolution in our understanding.

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Physicist Haisch thinks "Let there be light" isn't just a randomly chosen phrase for the Creation. Indeed, he believes that in the mysteries of light rest clues to the deepest mysteries of the universe, something he calls God, though he doesn't mean by that word the personification that some believers prefer. A scientist who has worked in astrophysics and theoretical physics, Haisch has retained his wonder at the universe from childhood, as he describes in the affecting memoir with which the book begins. Many scientists find no tension between their profession and the profession of belief in divinity, but Haisch goes one step further by attempting to find a scientific explanation for the phenomenon generally called God. Light, that familiar but utterly mysterious force, is the key to such an understanding. Readable and engaging, Haisch will be embraced by those concerned with finding ways of reconciling science and religion. Patricia Monaghan
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“Readable and engaging, Haisch will be embraced by those concerned with finding ways of reconciling science and religion.” --Booklist

“If you are interested in the zero point field from someone with the scientific and metaphysical credentials, go no further. . . . If you want to put your metaphysical conception of the universe on a more solid scientific basis and/or have great discussions . . . get a little God Theory in your life.” --William Arntz, Executive Producer of What the Bleep Do We Know?

“Whether our world will fall apart from the excesses of religious zeal or the blind stupidities of scientific materialism is a serious question. In this tour de force, a peerless scientist presents us with a way out.” --Larry Dossey, MD

“The God Theory makes important inroads toward the creation of a higher-order synthesis grounded in today’s most cutting-edge science.” --What Is Enlightment? --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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In The God Theory, Bernard Haisch discards both scientific dogma and religious dogma and proposes a theory that provides purpose for our lives while at the same time is completely consistent with everything we have discovered about the universe and life on Earth. To wit, Newton was right -- there is a God -- and wrong -- this is not merely a material world. Haisch proposes that science will explain God and God will explain science. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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About the Author

Bernard Haisch, PhD is an astrophysicist, author of over 130 scientific publications, and was a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years. After earning his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Haisch did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His professional positions include staff scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, deputy director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute für Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. He was also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Prior to his career in astrophysics, Haisch attended the Latin School of Indianapolis and the St. Meinrad Seminary as a student for the Catholic priesthood. The God Theory is his first solo book. He is married with three children and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marsha Sims. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN : B0070YFPYU
Publisher : Weiser Books (April 1, 2009)
Publication date : April 1, 2009
Language : English
File size : 355 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 163 pages
Lending : Enabled

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- #954 in Occult Unexplained Mysteries

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Ben

"On the first day, God said 'Let there be light'...On the fourth day God created the stars..."?

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015

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If the subject of this review bothers you on an intellectual level, then you really should read this book :)

I am not an astrophysicist, or even an accomplished scientist of any kind for that matter (just a lowly computer programmer), but I have always believed that the most accurate theory for our place in the universe lies somewhere between the various flavors of the Bible and modern science. I believe wholeheartedly in The Big Bang and evolution, but I also believe in some sort of divine "creator" that experimented with creation as a way of entertaining "him"self (something had to create the matter of The Big Bang and be the catalyst for its sudden expansion).

I was reading Douglas E. Richard's "Quantum Lens" when I cam across a passage of a character explaining the zero-point energy field and Bernard Haisch's "The God Theory". I was extremely intrigued by the way that character accurately described what I had felt about our universe all along. Then, when I found out that "The God Theory" is a real book written by a bonafide astrophysicist, I bought it right away!

Reading this book has not disappointed my expectations one bit... it is utterly fascinating (albeit a bit difficult to understand the details at times)! I also like that this book in now way intends to become a new religion (like "Scientology"). Instead, it just asks us to keep an open mind to possibilities, and not to be too fanatical about what we decide upon. It's just another theory to consider.

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Joe Sauvage

An open minded inquiry by a very respectable scientist

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2016

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The author takes on the reductionist, materialist dogma that has been quite pervasive over the past several years. There is much which is not explained, nor addressed by mainstream science for a wide range of reasons and over time there has been a tendency to selectively ignore a multitude of human experiences, such as near death experiences, the placebo effect, and well designed tests of various psi phenomena and respectable meta analyses. Since this phenomena does not fit within the mainstream models and belief systems, there is a systematic selection bias that has pervaded the science community. It is one thing to choose not to study such phenomena, but it is all too easy to discount and dismiss all such phenomena under the guise of absolute scientific knowledge. Utilizing an open minded skeptical approach is one of the strengths of good science and scientists. The author's God Theory is an attempt to provide a wider picture view of reality which does not negate the amazing historical progress made by the materialist, reductionist approach. It is an attempt to subsume the physical with the nonphysical and he offers many good points to digest and contemplate...one just needs to approach it with an open mind and examine in the context of ones own experiences and a long history of human endeavors trying to explain non-rational, esoteric experiences. There is much more within the book and the author also provides a good history and references associated with his work and others regarding Zero-Point Fields.

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Danïel

Worth reading, with caveats

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2017

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Some great perspectives on spirituality and interesting science, woven together by a sometimes pedantic and repetitive narrative, with a few too many anecdotes and notes on personal achievements. The last chapter struck me as being a bit moralistic: although I certainly appreciate where it's coming from, for me it detracts from his overall argument.

What surprised me, is that he quotes Sir James Jeans, “The universe looks more and more like a great thought”, but he later writes, "Ultimately, however, the fullness of experience requires a realm of physical matter"... It seems to me that experience doesn't require physical matter - I have a fullness of experience in dreams and the space, time and matter of my dreams are pure thought - so if the universe is a thought, then his long foray into the topic of the zero-point field as a source of physical matter seems unnecessary. It's almost as if he can't quite escape the grip of the reductionism he (rightly) criticises, and so still needs to find a physical/mechanical basis for reality. Personally, I am convinced reality is indeed a thought - the 'I Am' experiencing who He is through/as us - and physical reality is an illusion of consciousness.

All that said, I don't expect any book on spirituality to be perfect, and this book has given some very interesting ideas to consider and provided great references for further reading, so I do recommend it.

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IMCPU2

Thought Provoking and Exciting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2016

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I won't say that I understood all of the points in this book. I have limited understanding of physics or astrophysics, but some of the concepts just feel intuitively right. Indeed trying to understand the reason behind our existence must be something that most people ponder to some degree or another. The older you get the more you ponder. The God Theory feels like it answers most of my questions and makes me think of more along lines similar. Having been brought up as a Roman Catholic and quickly (by 16 anyway) dismissed most contemporary religions as hypocritical nonsense I have been searching for a way to sum up the way that I feel about life and this book answers a lot of those questions and feelings.

The book is well written and easy to follow even if some of the technical terms make you continually look to the Kindle dictionary. A book that I think I will re-read in a few years. It will be interesting to see if I still have the same belief. Excellent and thought provoking.

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Dodwell

Totally recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2018

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Brilliant. A really mind bending theory which presents how we look at God or The Creator, in a wholly different way. It's not often a book "blows my socks off", but this did. Totally recommended.

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David Grove

Suser read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2019

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A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Highly recommended

Edén's Semilla

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2015

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Great read

T.S.

an old idea sold as new

Reviewed in Germany on August 19, 2018

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God as universal consciousness - the principal idea of the 'God Theory' - is presented here in a rather secular way, as if it were anything new on the horizon. With the author trying to convince the reader of the reasonability of his theory, and - a bit pathetically - of his authority on the field, he is aparently ignorant and unaware of the fact that 'god as conscienceness' is also the main idea behind Hinduism and the vedic science, the so-called Sanatana Dharma - all together a belief system that has been followed for several thousand years by millions, if not a billion people and more. I would say if this catholic ex-seminarists would have looked a bit more beyond the church fence, he would have realised that his book is entirely redundant and obsolete. Someone interested in such a theory of God consciousness will find richer inspiration in the Bhagavad-Gita or the Upanishads.

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