The Science of God : The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom
Synopsis:
According to physicist Gerald Schroeder, beneath the harsh and seemingly
irreconcilable conflicts which have arisen between believers in science
and people of faith, science has quietly been converging with some
essential biblical truths. In this book, Schroeder demonstrates how some
of the latest scientific discoveries actually confirm key verses of the
Bible. Line drawings.
Excerpted Comments From A Review By Kirkus Reviews , 11/01/97:
"This account of creation is the latest entry in the current endeavor to
drag science and religion within shouting distance of each other.
Schroeder, a physicist and Bible scholar (Genesis and the Big Bang, 1990),
attempts to reconcile the Genesis account of creation with current
scientific knowledge about the origin of life. No doubt he is well versed
in both the Bible and biology; he's also a skilled pedagogue, explaining
abstract or counterintuitive concepts in lay terms. But this book will
fail to convince many readers because the author so relentlessly seeks to
persuade the reader of the validity of some strange theories, and because
his biblical interpretations draw on an exclusively Jewish tradition,
including Kabbalah, Maimonedes, and selected passages from the Talmud,
which he claims ``anticipated'' later scientific discoveries. Admittedly,
some of his arguments (for instance, that the sequence of Genesis creation
is congruent with evolution's progression from prokaryotic to human life)
are compelling. But elsewhere Schroeder less convincingly rejects the
notion of random, mutation-driven evolution, arguing instead that
evolution is ``channeled'' toward an outcome preprogrammed into existing
DNA..."
Best Regards,
Dario A Giraldo
Lacey, Washington