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A God That Could be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet (2015)

por Nancy Ellen Abrams

Otros autores: Paul C. W. Davies (Prólogo), Desmond Tutu (Prólogo)

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A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded readers Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them- too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason. Nancy Abrams, a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist, is among them. And yet, when she turned to the recovery community to face a personal struggle, she found that imagining a higher power gave her a new freedom. Intellectually, this was quite surprising. Meanwhile her husband, famed astrophysicist Joel Primack, was helping create a new theory of the universe based on dark matter and dark energy, and Abrams was collaborating with him on two books that put the new scientific picture into a social and political context. She wondered, "Could anything actually exist in this strange new universe that is worthy of the name 'God?'" In A God That Could Be Real, Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science-but that this doesn't preclude a God that can comfort and empower us. Moving away from traditional arguments for God, Abrams finds something worthy of the name "God" in the new science of emergence- just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants, and just as the global economy emerges from the interactions of billions of individuals' choices, God, she argues, is an "emergent phenomenon" that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity's collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual. This God did not create the universe-it created the meaning of the universe. It's not universal-it's planetary. It can't change the world, but it helps us change the world. A God that could be real, Abrams shows us, is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.… (más)
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I confess that I put down this book at the half way point feeling frustrated with myself. I read widely on religion, spirituality and god. There is a whole section of my library that is referred to in my family as the comparative religion section.

My path to my own beliefs came from a deep seated concern that I did not believe in the Heaven I was told would be my afterlife.

I was intrigued by a scentific approach to this question. My frustration stems from finding this book difficult to read. I kept having to re read paragraphs, passages and chapters to retain what the author was trying to relate to me. Even after reading I was still not certain I understood.

This book may have come at the wrong time for me as a reader. I hope to finish it one day and put it on the shelf in the religion section. ( )
  AzureMountain | Dec 6, 2016 |
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I received this book for free, in exchange for a review, but it took me half a year to finish it. Every now and then, feeling guilty, I tried to pick it up, but it just would not go. I hope that it would make a more pleasant read to a non-scientist (as it talks a lot about science), or a non-believer (as it talks a lot about God), but if you happen to be interested in both religion and science, then this book may be too slow for you. In one sentence, the author revisits post-Hegelian dialectics and applies it to religion, defining God as a truly (dialectically) existing teleological representation of meta-humanity.

At the same time, the book is definitely thought-provoking. I kept thinking, for example, how the Jewish background of the author had a profound influence on her theology, even though this theology is completely reinvented, and decidedly postmodern. She writes for example that it is impossible for a human to relate to a deistic God, that God has to be personal, but as a personal God cannot be above physics, he has to be very limited, and bound to the humanity that worships and so creates him. What's curious here is that the author does not notice, and does not even mention several important alternatives that could potentially solve the conflict between faith and modern physics in different ways. For example, Abrams is not interested in Pythagorean mysticism, in the God of math (because it would not be personal, it would not be a "He"), and she does not even consider spirituality in which relatable person-figures emanate from God, or represent (project) God in our lives (be it Hindu avatars, classic Nicene understanding of Christ, or folk Christian perception of saints). She always works under assumption that God is one, and he is a person, a lonely person, which obviously limits the realm of possible theologies to consider.

The book also contains several interesting, poetic metaphors that were a pleasure to read, and a nice discussion of physical scales that could be welcome in any classroom. It has some really nice material, but it did not quite work for me as a book, and I definitely cannot subscribe to its main argument. ( )
  Arseny | Oct 19, 2016 |
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A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet, by Nancy Abrams, brought up a number of interesting ideas. I liked the concept that the idea of a god figure emerged from human aspirations and systems. I thought the chapter on the question of the afterlife was especially thought provoking. I found the author’s writing easy to read, and recommend this book for anyone exploring spirituality, or questioning their religious traditions. ( )
  LTietz | Sep 1, 2016 |
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Nancy Abrams, in this book, tries to define a good brief for religion, attempting to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of atheism and fundmentalism. She does a remarkable job, not always totally satisfying for thosee of us closer to the theist camp. She avoids the term, first cause, which many theists have bandied about to discover what or even who created the world. For some of, us, this is a mystery and does not need a physical explanation. That is, one can see this as mystery. Abrams does sees systems that opeate beyond individual humans, the markeplace, for instance, and in actuality, religion. She creates the image of uroboros which is a circular serpent encompassing everything from the infinitely small to the whole cosmos. She sees God as pretty much inhbiting the Midgard, where things are discernibly real. She does toy with the idea of emergence and she is on to something there: the idea of newness expandind our perspective. She does have a prblem with the idea, and maybe the practice of worship, which sees as counter to the sense of emergence. She does not see the collective meaning of life provided by participating in a liturgy. At the end of the book she has a good plea for the need for humans to protect the earth and its ecology and manages to fold this well into her concept of God. This is a good book to read as we grope to understand the connection between religion and science in a realistic and satisfying way. ( )
  vpfluke | Aug 12, 2016 |
This book blew my mind in all kinds of interesting ways. Abrams's thesis is that God is an emergent phenomenon - like life, consciousness, or gravity - growing from the collected aspirations of the human race. I'm not 100% convinced by all of her elaborations and conclusions stemming from this idea, but the idea itself is a compelling one, and I'm definitely interested in pursuing it further. ( )
  jen.e.moore | Jul 28, 2016 |
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FOREWORD BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

I must begin by acknowledging that I do not agree with everything that Nancy Abrams says about a scientific understanding of God. I dare say many religious believers will be deeply challenged by this book, but they will come away better for having read it, as we all do when our most cherished views are explored more deeply.
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For most of my life, a God that was "real" seemed a contradiction in terms. Every idea of God I had ever encountered seemed either physically impossible or so vague as to be empty. I
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A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded readers Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them- too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason. Nancy Abrams, a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist, is among them. And yet, when she turned to the recovery community to face a personal struggle, she found that imagining a higher power gave her a new freedom. Intellectually, this was quite surprising. Meanwhile her husband, famed astrophysicist Joel Primack, was helping create a new theory of the universe based on dark matter and dark energy, and Abrams was collaborating with him on two books that put the new scientific picture into a social and political context. She wondered, "Could anything actually exist in this strange new universe that is worthy of the name 'God?'" In A God That Could Be Real, Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science-but that this doesn't preclude a God that can comfort and empower us. Moving away from traditional arguments for God, Abrams finds something worthy of the name "God" in the new science of emergence- just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants, and just as the global economy emerges from the interactions of billions of individuals' choices, God, she argues, is an "emergent phenomenon" that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity's collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual. This God did not create the universe-it created the meaning of the universe. It's not universal-it's planetary. It can't change the world, but it helps us change the world. A God that could be real, Abrams shows us, is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.

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