Book Reviews
Science and Theology News
5/1/2006
Kitty Ferguson says that science and religion can coexist symbiotically. Asserting that modern science does not interfere with the existence of a personal and miraculous God, she says in The Fire in the Equations (2004) that science is unable to lend to either believers or atheists irrefutable public proof of their positions. Ferguson is a scholar of physics, mathematics, astronomy and theology, and has written about black holes and the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking. Also a professional musician, Ferguson studied at the Julliard School and both conducted and performed before switching to science writing.
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Journal of Chemical Education
6/1/2005
If you are an atheist, you have to ask where the universe and the big bang come from. If you are a theist, you have to wonder where the creator, God, comes from. Science is helpless in answering the question of God’s existence and His role in the world, but its successes surely change the manner in which the questions are formulated. Stephen Hawking, distinguished for his contributions into the nature of black holes, has attempted, fruitlessly in my opinion, to formulate a way in which the universe creates itself. It’s the fire in the equations he has derived which makes in his mind the universe come into being. Kitty Ferguson, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, professional musician and latter day science writer, has taken this as the title of her fascinating, accessible book on the interrelationship of science, philosophy and God. I don’t think there is a question that anyone has ever asked about God that isn’t addressed in this book.
If you enjoy Kitty Ferguson’s book, you will undoubtedly like Chet Raymo’s paean to pantheism, Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion, and Charles P. Henderson’s brilliant defense of theism, God and Science: The Death and Rebirth of Theism.
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