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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 230 EAN: 9781932031904 ISBN: 1932031901 Label: Templeton Foundation Press Manufacturer: Templeton Foundation Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: March 30, 2005 Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press Studio: Templeton Foundation Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Who seeing the stunning order in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we were expected after all. Stuart Kauffman Exhilarating photographs and inspiring words take us on a microscopic tour of a miraculous phenomenonthe human bodyleading to a sense that our existence is no accident. This photographic journey into inner space utilizes microscopic imagery to document the beautiful and mysterious realm of the tiniest components of human lifebrain waves, nerve endings, cell structures, acid crystalsrevealing a symmetry, a perfection, and, ultimately, a revelation. Illuminating quotes from the finest literary and scientific mindsPasteur, Tolstoy, Einstein, St. Augustine, Thoreau, Darwin, just to name a fewsupport the idea that science may prove to be a path to God and that the human brain itself, through what researchers are now calling its "spirituality circuit," is wired to lead us to that path. With an introduction by Wall Street Journal science editor Sharon Begley, Inside the Mind of God promises to provide further insight into the abiding question: why is there something, rather than nothing? Three years ago Michael Reagans best-selling book The Hand of God juxtaposed photographs of spiraling galaxies, shimmering nebulae, and luminous stars with the words of great scientists and philosophers to suggest the profound link between the scientific and the spiritual. Inside the Mind of God, continues this journey, now into inner space. The stunning photographs and inspiring quotes create a sense of wonder and awe in the miraculous evidence of Gods hand in the smallest details of our existence. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Beautiful bookThis book has beautiful pictures of various kinds of cells. I only wish that I had known that some of the pictures are of life threatening diseases. Rating: - Outstanding Visuals and Inspiring QuotesUpon seeing the title and cover of this book, I picked it up from the bookstore. It is lovely eye-candy! It has a colorful picture of a human brain on the front cover. Always curious as to what is in the mind of God, it was a have-to-have it book. It combines for the most part beautiful images (and some stunningly beautiful) of the inner body processes blown up to mega-size and, in some cases, resembling a kind of impressionistic art. Even cancer cells have a certain beauty blown up ... Read More Rating: - Beautiful photos, great quotesBeautiful photographs of brain cells, brain imaging, molecules of neurotransmitters and much more, with exquisitely chosen quotes of scientists who sit on both sides of the divided opinions about whether the brain is the source of mind, or whether spirit embodies itself in the brain (mostly emphasizing the latter). Here are a few: There are a limitless number of different sciences, but without one basic science, that is, what is the meaning of life and what is good for the ... Read More Rating: - Beautiful and poetic ... and that's just the picturesPairing startlingly beautiful photographs of the most minute aspects of life -- neurons, cancer cells, adrenaline, anthrax bacillus, embryonic stem cells, sperm and egg, DNA and more -- with great thoughts of scientists, clergy, philosophers, writers, political leaders and artists is utterly ingenious in this book. For example, a gentle blue photograph of a breast cancer cell appears beside a quote from Mother Teresa: "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't ... Read More Rating:  - Beautiful pictures, lovely words, but . . .The idea of this book, if I understand it, is "to suggest the profound link between the scientific and the spiritual" through the juxtaposition of beautiful pictures of "inner space"--in this case of cells, organs, and crystals--with quotes about faith, mystery and belief. The book starts with a fine essay by Sharon Begley, science editor of the Wall Street Journal. She discusses the thesis that God must exist because of the perfection of the workings of nature--the famous argument from design. ... Read More 
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