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The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom Paperback – October 20, 1998
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- Print length226 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBroadway Books
- Publication dateOctober 20, 1998
- Dimensions5.55 x 0.68 x 8.11 inches
- ISBN-10076790303X
- ISBN-13978-0767903035
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- Publisher : Broadway Books; 1st edition (October 20, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 226 pages
- ISBN-10 : 076790303X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0767903035
- Item Weight : 7.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.55 x 0.68 x 8.11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,626,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13,691 in Christian Commentaries (Books)
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Gerald L. Schroeder is the author of Genesis and the Big Bang and The Science of God. He earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to laboratories at the Weizmann Institute, the Hebrew University, and the Volcani Research Institute in Israel. His work has been reported in Time, Newsweek, Scientific American, and in leading newspapers around the world. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their five children.
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Dislike: His belief that a 'contradiction' existed when Adam & Eve didn't die (as God said they would) when they committed the sin ignores the fact that their 'Spirits' died-as evidenced by their broken relation with God. He, like others, considered only physical death. (Even Ezekiel listed God's promise to give a new heart (spirit) to His followers, to help them follow Him.)
This book is worthless to 90% of people in that no one but a very select few knows anything about Einstein's laws of relativity. The "normal" Christian could not understand this book as they completely ignore all aspects of science as it relates to the creation. (Thanks be to the very embarrassing documentaries on how physicists and archeologists are all wrong and dinosaurs lived in the past 5000 years.)
I'm so thankful to God that this author wrote this book as he affirmed my theories, which I attribute to God, and added fact and substance to them. But getting these ideas to your average Christian will take a book that starts from their perspective instead of a physicists perspective.
It is no exaggeration for me to say that this book changed my life. I have always been a person of faith but with a foot in both worlds. I have a strong intuitive belief in God and high respect for religious traditions, but I also respect and accept much of modern mainstream scientific scholarship and theory. I reconciled the seeming contradictions by ignoring them; by telling myself simply that there is much we don't know.
I did until I read this book. Dr. Schroeder's Biblical exegesis, taken from the original Hebrew (and that is very important), and scientific explanations seemed to literally open my mind. He actually connects the spheres, in a way I had always faithfully believed in even as I submerged my dreadful doubt that maybe...just maybe...it wasn't really possible. It is, and Dr. Schroeder explains how and why.
Some of the science in this book might be quite difficult for a layman with no scientific background. But find a quiet spot, read the hard stuff more than once if necessary, and you'll see. In all the negative reviews I have seen of Dr. Schroeder's work I have yet to see any clear, valid, detailed refutations of the actual hard science he lays out in his writing. I am more convinced than ever it is because he is correct. The level of hostility he incurs from the usual suspects--not atheists, but this new breed of anti-theists, people who are overtly hostile toward and prejudiced against the mere possibility of the existence of God or something transcendental behind our world and existence, something that we can actually know if we open our minds and hearts--further confirms that he is dangerous to the established order in all the right, and righteous, ways.
In the end, Dr. Schroeder strengthened my faith and my belief in a way I would not have thought possible. And perhaps the most amazing part is that he and I do not even belong to the same religion. He is an Orthodox Jew and I am a Christian. I thank him truly and may God bless him and his work.
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Whereits prescience lacks I felt was in believing that the fruits of the earth might be inexhaustable which of course we know today they are not. But they can be excused since I doubt population increase was seen as a possible problem in a time of significant human mortality.
We know maibly of ten main commandments which are they major key to living together in a civilised way in human community. Yet in fact there are hundreds many of which are very sensible to living healthily in communities.
This book is no apologia for religion rather it shows how man in those times was as capable of logical reasoning from first principles to make of the World and the major questions of existence probably just as much as we understand of agency and purpose of man in the Universe today since we are not much further advanced in such an understanding.
If we examing the difference between humans and other animals there are perhaps two maybe three differences..
While most animals find themsrlves at the mercy of the natural increase in entropy in the universe humans survive by using their brains’ abilities and imagination to delay divert or use that flow to create an environment propitious for survival. Human pass on this culture upon which future ones seek to improve. Unfortunately or fortunately our brains are such that we seem also to possess emotions we do not observe in animals, guilt, shame, hate etc perhaps evolved also to maintain order in our interactions but which can run riot leading to all those worst aspects of our condition.
Death is perhaps the most fearful and mysterious fate awaiting all animals. However around the natural fears of humans in facing the forces of nature through time grew the ideas of magic and religion. Magic is just action without energy input, Science build understanding of the agencies that make things happen, religion attempts to explain why there is something rather than nothing by explaining it in supernatural terms. Religion, and Science both give us hope for the future in different ways but both require us to hope when circumstances seem beyond salvation. Hope in the face of all odds might seem cognitively dissonant but it is what we humans have which iabove all is our difference to other animals and what is the unique key to our survival and growth as a species.
Schroeder uses his expertise in Hebrew, and also quotes extensively from Maimonides writing in the 12th century and Nahmanides who wrote in the 13th century to show that the Old Testament has a startling amount to explain to confirm what scientists in the 20th / 21st centuries are only now beginning to understand about Cosmology. These two ancients have been chosen by Schroeder so there can be no suggestion that their commentaries knew of modern science.
The old earth / young earth positions are at constant loggerheads in modern times, but the two books I have mentioned go a far way to reconciling how 6 days / 6000 years / billions of years can all be right depending on your frame of reference. Well worth the read, even for people who are not experts in the subject matter.










