
A story about having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science—revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.Mike McHargue, host of The Liturgists and Ask Science Mike podcasts, understands the pain of unraveling belief. In Finding God in the Waves, Mike tells the story of how his Evangelical faith dissolved into atheism as...
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Convergent Books; Reprint edition (October 3, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1101906065
ISBN-13: 978-1101906064
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 30869
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[WARNING: This review contains spoilers, if it is possible to spoil a memoir. If you prefer to go on Mike's journey via his book without my "giving it away," you may want to skip this.]I really got off on the wrong foot with Science Mike.My first enc...
the Bible, a crisis that threatened his identity, his friendships, and even his marriage. Years later, Mike was standing on the shores of the Pacific Ocean when a bewildering, seemingly mystical moment motivated him to take another look. But this time, it wasn't theology or scripture that led him back to God—it was science.Full of insights about the universe, as well as deeply personal reflections on our desire for certainty and meaning, Finding God in the Waves is a vital exploration of the possibility for knowing God in an age of reason, and a signpost for where the practice of faith is headed in a secular age. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray; how fundamentalism affects the psyche; and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but also in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us.