Longtime Redwood Shores resident and best selling author of THE GOD THEORY, Bernard Haisch, announces the publication of his new book THE PURPOSE-GUIDED UNIVERSE: BELIEVING IN EINSTEIN, DARWIN AND GOD by New Page Books, a division of Career Press Inc. Haisch is an astrophysicist (Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) who has worked on many NASA projects. In his books he shows that science and spirituality can be compatible.
Is it possible that there can be a purpose behind the Universe? One that is consistent with modern science and especially the Big Bang and Darwinian evolution? Is there a grand purpose for our lives? The answer is yes.
Bestsellers by Christopher Hitchins, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris have denounced the evils of religion and proclaimed that science has shown that there is no God. Their angry accusations are partially correct. Religions have been used to justify crimes against humanity: witness the Inquisition of centuries past or the sectarian slaughter in the Mideast today. But the human misuse of religions and the existence of God are very different matters.
A remarkable discovery has emerged in astrophysics: that key properties of the Universe have just the right values to make life possible. Most scientists prefer to explain away this uniqueness, insisting that a huge, perhaps infinite, number of unseen universes must therefore exist, each randomly different from the other. That way ours only appears special because we could not exist in any of the other hypothetical universes.
Haisch proposes the alternative that the special properties of our universe reflect an underlying intelligence, one that is consistent with a 13.7 billion-year old universe and evolution. Both views are equally logical and beyond proof. However exceptional human experiences and accounts of mystics throughout the ages do suggest that we live in a purposeful universe. In both books he proposes what that purpose might be? what that purpose means for our lives? how it might explain the riddle of evil. The book also addresses such questions as:
- Why do most scientists reject the idea of God?
- What are some of the “just right” constants in astrophysics that make the Universe capable of sustaining life?
- How can you have spirituality without religion?
- What are the biggest problems with organized religion?
- Does consciousness create reality?
- Does quantum mechanics have anything to say about consciousness?
- How does Darwinian evolution play a role?
- Can science and spirituality be bridged?
THE PURPOSE-GUIDED UNIVERSE: BELIEVING IN EINSTEIN, DARWIN AND GOD and THE GOD THEORY are available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and bookstores. Visit <thegodtheory.com> for further details.
— Bernard Haisch
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