Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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Although several of his points the author emphasized felt repeated to the point of redundancy, I found it beneficial since I struggle with comprehension. This book provides such an important viewpoint in an era when we equate science with rational thought and rational thought with atheism. This odd combination of high hopes and condescension makes a lot of sense when you read the last few pages of the text where he says pretty directly that the book is for people younger than 26, because 26 is when your worldview gets set in stone. But guess what, when you point at anything and say “that’s evidence”, then you’re never going to be wrong. Similarly, Tyler Cowen of George Mason University recently mused that as people grow more accustomed to interacting with intelligent machines (like Apple’s Siri), which require no social niceties, they might find it harder to build relationships with humans.

He's an enthusiastic narrator who makes more obscure topics accessible and interesting, even if, at times, it feels like he could step out of the spotlight.So yeah if you want a book about proselytizing through “science” without too much of the science involved, jump on in.

Instead, Morris presents them to the reader as one would present legal direct examination: question and answer. many individuals—and you might be one of them—see logic and faith as implacable adversaries and, therefore, believe they must choose between the two. The book all about “expanding your worldview to encompass things you can’t understand because they’re not a part of your material existence” draws the line at transpeople. Based on what little we know, we speculate it could be an entirely new invisible form of matter, ruled by an entirely new kind of force.

I have immense faith in them, and with good reason- the laws of thermodynamics have solid evidence backing them up.

which is about a famous Civil War ambrotype, Morris offers a meditation on photography, memory, death, and history. The subtitle of the book describes this work perfectly: “ A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith. Humans uniquely have an IQ and an SQ (spiritual quotient that can detect translogical realities) which are essential to our understanding of the universe. As he personally began to study the idea of faith and world religions, he realized that scientists had a heavy reliance on faith-based ideals, and he cites quantum physics, which holds a particular fascination for him (as it does for me) as the obvious example. the temporal relations which cannot be reduced to the present” ( Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975–1995, ed.

Repeated positive interactions and demonstrations of trustworthiness create a foundation of mutual confidence. That referring to him judging how trans people are just “responding to their emotions” and doesn’t think maybe that’s literally their personality and how God created them? From what we can tell (which is precious little), it behaves like a repulsive force that causes the universe to balloon out an accelerating speed. Why does moralizing about ‘posing’ take precedence—moral precedence—over moralizing about the carnage of war? With that said, I think that Christians can definitely learn from and appreciate the book— particularly the idea that science and faith are not mutually exclusive.

Reliance on families or tribes—groups whose members’ interests are more closely aligned, presumably, than those of the population as a whole—is a common strategy. As it turns out, Sontag was correct in her assumptions, as were historians of photography Ulrich Keller and Mark Haworth-Booth. The explanations and discussions used to conclude that the scientific and Christian worldviews are fundamentally compatible are thought provoking and convincing. I can also see that this book is targeted toward a young audience, including Christians who may find that their worldview is being questioned.The words, mental models and worldview we employ act as ‘organizing ideas’ that help us to structure what we see and pay attention to. One appeals to the religious, the other to physicists, of which I’m both, so I feel like I can say with some confidence that while he does, on occasion, actually achieve his lofty goal of marrying science and religion in a translogical union, he usually falls flat on his face. One of the crucial first steps in any process that lets us learn how to think differently is to begin with questioning our own assumptions and the mental models we employ. Avoiding an engagement with art-historical and theoretical precedents ultimately enables Morris to begin and end with commonplaces about photography, representation, and temporality.