My to-read list just keeps getting longer. I’m psyched to get my hands on the recently published A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet by Nancy Ellen Abrams (follow the link for an excerpt).
Abrams, a lawyer, is married to an astrophysicist and has thus followed the last four decades of research on the origins and evolution of the universe. She says she’s “fascinated by the connection between science and other realms of human thought, feeling, and ambitions.” She grew up in a religious household but could never buy what the church was selling: a God that has to be believed in as opposed to one “that cannot help but exist, in the same way that matter and gravity and culture exist.”
Further, Abrams describes her own vulnerabilities in the book (she has an eating disorder). Is there a more dizzying, intriguing triad than the universe, God, and human vulnerability? (Well, maybe sugar, salt, and fat. Sorry, Abrams, is it too soon to make such a joke?)
I’ll let you know what I learn about dark matter, dark energy, the theory of emergence, and God too—all discussed in the book.