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 (paperback edition -- ISBN 978-0-692-56874-3)
of humans in the cosmos.
CONTENTS of Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science & Spirit (paperback edition -- ISBN 978-0-692-56874-3)
Contents vii
List of Figures ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
PART I: The Copernican Revolution: Cosmology 1
1 The Clockmaker and the Clockwork 3
2 The Music of the Spheres 17
3 The Starry Messenger 31
4 The Star-Crossed Prophet 57
5 The Jewish Saint 75
6 A Wrinkle in Time 97
7 Einstein’s Happiest Thought 111
8 Lights All Askew 127
PART II: The Second “Copernican” Revolution: Biology 145
9 The Entangled Bank 147
10 The Time Bomb 179
Interlude: Lifting the Veil 201
11 Through the Looking Glass 203
12 Parallel Universes 231
PART III: The Third “Copernican” Revolution: Psychology/Spirituality 237
13 The Arrows of Time 239
14 What Is Life? 257
15 A World Aflame 277
16 The Winds of Change 293
17 Pale Images 305
Epilogue 315
Notes 323
Bibliography 347
Index 353
About the Author 369
List of Figures ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
PART I: The Copernican Revolution: Cosmology 1
1 The Clockmaker and the Clockwork 3
2 The Music of the Spheres 17
3 The Starry Messenger 31
4 The Star-Crossed Prophet 57
5 The Jewish Saint 75
6 A Wrinkle in Time 97
7 Einstein’s Happiest Thought 111
8 Lights All Askew 127
PART II: The Second “Copernican” Revolution: Biology 145
9 The Entangled Bank 147
10 The Time Bomb 179
Interlude: Lifting the Veil 201
11 Through the Looking Glass 203
12 Parallel Universes 231
PART III: The Third “Copernican” Revolution: Psychology/Spirituality 237
13 The Arrows of Time 239
14 What Is Life? 257
15 A World Aflame 277
16 The Winds of Change 293
17 Pale Images 305
Epilogue 315
Notes 323
Bibliography 347
Index 353
About the Author 369