Following Galileo, science and religion separated. Following Darwin, they divorced. Science has flourished, but humans, the children of that divorce have suffered "disenchantment of the universe."
Reason and Wonder reconciles and re-enchants.
Reason and Wonder reconciles and re-enchants.
Modern science has unfolded over the last 450 years as three successive "Copernican" revolutions that are redefining the physical, the biological, and now the spiritual place
of humans in the cosmos.
CONTENTS of Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science & Spirit
of humans in the cosmos.
CONTENTS of Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science & Spirit
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
PART I: The Copernican Revolution: Cosmology
1 The Clockmaker and the Clockwork 3
2 The Music of the Spheres 17
3 The Starry Messenger 33
4 The Star-Crossed Prophet 61
5 The Jewish Saint 81
6 A Wrinkle in Time 105
7 Einstein’s Happiest Thought 121
8 Lights All Askew 137
PART II: The Second “Copernican” Revolution: Biology
9 The Entangled Bank 159
10 The Time Bomb 195
PART III: Lifting the Veil
11 Through the Looking Glass 221
12 Parallel Universes 253
PART IV: The Third “Copernican” Revolution: Psychology/Spirituality
13 The Arrows of Time 261
14 What Is Life? 281
15 A World Aflame 303
16 The Winds of Change 321
17 Pale Images 335
Epilogue 345
Notes 353
Bibliography 379
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
PART I: The Copernican Revolution: Cosmology
1 The Clockmaker and the Clockwork 3
2 The Music of the Spheres 17
3 The Starry Messenger 33
4 The Star-Crossed Prophet 61
5 The Jewish Saint 81
6 A Wrinkle in Time 105
7 Einstein’s Happiest Thought 121
8 Lights All Askew 137
PART II: The Second “Copernican” Revolution: Biology
9 The Entangled Bank 159
10 The Time Bomb 195
PART III: Lifting the Veil
11 Through the Looking Glass 221
12 Parallel Universes 253
PART IV: The Third “Copernican” Revolution: Psychology/Spirituality
13 The Arrows of Time 261
14 What Is Life? 281
15 A World Aflame 303
16 The Winds of Change 321
17 Pale Images 335
Epilogue 345
Notes 353
Bibliography 379