Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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The words, mental models and worldview we employ act as ‘organizing ideas’ that help us to structure what we see and pay attention to. He flicks back and forth between the experiential aspect of his religious experience and complex physical and mathematical concepts. Definitely recommending this to peers who struggle or question our post truth society, and the interconnectedness of science and faith. I agree that one aspect of humans is that we have a spiritual side that is more developed and unique in the animal kingdom and should not be dismissed. Worldview is at the center of Guillen’s latest title, which emphasizes the importance of having a solid worldview.

More recently, we’ve discovered another oddity about the heavens that is also totally invisible: Dark Energy. This incident helps us interpret the next event, Peter’s ‘revelation’ of the true identity of Jesus (v 29). In a study in America, Alberto Alesina, of Harvard University, and Eliana La Ferrara, of Bocconi University in Milan, found that places with higher levels of racial and income diversity have lower levels of trust. Figure 5 illustrates how beliefs and assumptions have a critical effect on what we choose to pay attention to. It is, itself, a kind of staged re-creation: of the battle between the Errol Morris who believes in irrefutable conclusions (and in the ethics and efficacy of his own particular means of arriving at them), and the Errol Morris who possesses a deeply personal understanding that the truth very often evades us.The Missing-Mass Problem made me realize that if I stuck with my hard-nosed, scientific worldview — if I insisted that ‘seeing is believing’ — then I’d be turning a blind eye to 95 percent of what’s out there in the universe.

Personally, I’m not an atheist, and I’m pursuing science, so I don't exactly need evidence for faith and religion and science co-existing. It’s not that I think they’re fibbing or stretching the truth… [but] their highly personal narratives are not legitimate scientific hypotheses. My dad chose this book to read aloud with me during some hard times, so I'll always have good memories associated with it.As a thermal engineer, I rely on the laws of thermodynamics to make nearly all of my analyses and designs. For so long, people have argued that seeing leads to believing, but in using more scientific evidence than I could fully comprehend in an audiobook, Guillen argues that what we believe (our worldview) greatly affects how we see the world. One cannot help but agree, even as one recoils at Morris’s complementary statement about a photograph being “one timeless instant of time” (180). Being able to question our own assumptions and paying attention to how we think and interpret situations is a crucial skill for anybody in a leadership position, and anybody wanting to co-create a regenerative culture. Many testimonies of atheists online say that when they were finally able to be free of the religion it was very liberating but this man goes out of his way to say it is not.

I also wish he hadn't begun the last chapter with a takedown of transgender people as an exemplar of people putting emotions over evidence; it felt like this was a sudden left turn and marked a part of the book that felt increasingly based on value judgments rather than the thoughtful conversation between scientific discipline that characterized the earlier part of the book. I will not say where my own beliefs were before and after reading this book so as to not give a future reader a preconceived opinion.Reviews and essays are licensed to the public under a under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4. By becoming more aware of the different steps we are taking on the ladder, we can question our own assumptions, conclusions and beliefs and those of others. New technologies that encourage co-operation in some spheres of life contribute to social capital rather than weaken it. But he goes out of his way to say that only the Christian God is real and that the Bible will set you free.



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