Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult. Skeptics and True Believersis the culmination of that search―a passionate, ever-inquisitive statement that science and religion can mutually reinforce the way we experience the world.
Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them. He illustrates his argument with an array of thought-provoking stories, such as the remarkable migratory flight of a small bird called the red knot; the long, glorious glide of the Comet Hyakutake across the night sky; a hilarious alien abduction that didn't happen. Together, they are compelling evidence that religion should embrace the reliable knowledge of the world that science provides, while at the same time science should respect and nourish humankind's need for spiritual sustenance. "Miracles are explainable," Raymo paraphrases the writer Tim Robinson, "it is the explanations that are miraculous."
For anyone drawn to reflect on life's meaning and purpose, Chet Raymo's uncompromising skepticism and reverence for mystery will affirm and inspire.
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"These confessions of a wise religious humanist who also loves, practices, understands, and lives by the ideals and findings of science show us how to heal the false and unnecessary rifts in our intellectual cultures, and to bridge the gap between knowledge and morality."
-Stephen Jay Gould
Although Chet Raymo disapproves of fundamentalist and New Age beliefs and is skeptical of traditional religion, he argues that science and religion can be mutually reinforcing ways of experiencing the world.
In his view, words like God, grace, soul, and sacrament can retain currency in an age of science.
Using dynamic and thought-provoking stories - a hilarious episode of alien abduction that didn't happen, or a walk on fire - Raymo argues that science should be embraced by religion, instead of distrusted. He also shows that the wondrous universe revealed by science can hardly fail to excite religious feeling. There are no miracles but one, he writes: the miracle of the creation itself, which is the primordial source of all religious feeling.
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