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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
In The Language of God, physician-geneticist Francis S. Collins, who headed the Human Genome Project after Francis Crick left, puts forth his case that accepting the findings of science and being a Christian are not incompatible. Well worth reading, for both believers and non-believers. Those who don't like the theology will still find themselves fascinated by the science and challenged by the moral issues raised by it.
Now it's on to Decoding the Language of God by geneticist George Cunningham, who, in arguing that being a scientist and a Christian are incompatible, takes Dr. Collins to task for his claims.
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Thanks for these. I not long ago read
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright. It was very interesting and he raises a lot of interesting points an arguments. I feel all fundamentalist Christians should be required to read this if only to learn just how much of the Bible evolved in time changing over that time and how much of what is attributed to Jesus he almost certainly never said.
I found a few things annoying about the book though. The author several times seemed ready to acknowledge that there is no God, nor any life after death (there's an oxymoron), but always backed away from that edge. There were some spots in the book that became tedious as he belabored the same points over and over, but these being central to his main argument I guess that can be understood. There is a problem with his ultimate argument for the existence of God in that with out acknowledging it he has created an anthropomorphic God whose ultimate aim is the improvement of one species, on one planet, in one solar system, in one galaxy, in the entire universe. What the the author attributes to belief in this God, “non-zero sum outcomes,” is just what humans would attribute to their own invention. Another additional point of irritation, not unique to this author but common among many non-scientists attempting to mine physics for support of their arguments, is his use of quantum mechanics, most specifically the uncertainty principle and the wave-particle duality, to make arguments that this has no relevance to.