--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Curtis, I haven't read this (I may order it), but > it looked like something that might interest you: > > God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers > Make Sense of Religion > by Guy Consolmagno
Looks excellent, thanks. The posts under the description were really interesting. My library doesn't have this yet, but they have his other astronomy books so they may order it. Otherwise I think an afternoon with a coffee in my hand and this book at Borders may be an afternoon well spent! > > Amazon: > http://tinyurl.com/2n8oss > > Consolmagno is "Brother Guy," an astronomer for the Vatican. > > From a review on Boing Boing: > > "I'm a second-generation atheist. I think that our experience of the > numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of > spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our > brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our > ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the > universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have > more babies. I have no need of, nor interest in a supernatural god or > a supernatural universe. > > "But I'm not so blinkered that I believe all religionists to be > deluded fools. There's clearly some serious value that smart, ethical > people derive from participation in spiritualism and even organized > religion. Brother Guy's exegesis on faith as a systematic way of > organizing and exploring the human experience of the numinous was > fascinating to me. It is is a thoroughgoing, charming, quick-paced > trip through a wide variety of personal experiences of spirituality > and religion." > > http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/19/gods-mechanics-vatic.html > http://tinyurl.com/3depce > > You might enjoy reading the comments to the post > as well. >
