Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

@book{citeulike:2970683, abstract = {Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere? As the eminent complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman explains in this ambitious and groundbreaking new book, people who do not believe in God have largely lost their sense of the sacred and the deep human legitimacy of our inherited spirituality. For those who believe in a Creator God, no science will ever disprove that belief. In \_Reinventing the Sacred\_, Kauffman argues that the science of complexity provides a way to move beyond reductionist science to something new: a unified culture where we see God in the creativity of the universe, biosphere, and humanity. Kauffman explains that the ceaseless natural creativity of the world can be a profound source of meaning, wonder, and further grounding of our place in the universe. His theory carries with it a new ethic for an emerging civilization and a reinterpretation of the divine. He asserts that we are impelled by the imperative of life itself to live with faith and courage-and the fact that we do so is indeed sublime. \_Reinventing the Sacred\_ will change the way we all think about the evolution of humanity, the universe, faith, and reason.}, author = {Kauffman, Stuart }, citeulike-article-id = {2970683}, comment = {Sounds like total B.S. to me ... but maybe it's not. }, howpublished = {Hardcover}, isbn = {0465003001}, keywords = {meta-theology, religion, science}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2008-07-07 18:59:19}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Basic Books}, title = {Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&path=ASIN/0465003001}, year = {2008} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2970683 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2970683 TI - Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion PB - Basic Books SN - 0465003001 N2 - Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere? As the eminent complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman explains in this ambitious and groundbreaking new book, people who do not believe in God have largely lost their sense of the sacred and the deep human legitimacy of our inherited spirituality. For those who believe in a Creator God, no science will ever disprove that belief. In _Reinventing the Sacred_, Kauffman argues that the science of complexity provides a way to move beyond reductionist science to something new: a unified culture where we see God in the creativity of the universe, biosphere, and humanity. Kauffman explains that the ceaseless natural creativity of the world can be a profound source of meaning, wonder, and further grounding of our place in the universe. His theory carries with it a new ethic for an emerging civilization and a reinterpretation of the divine. He asserts that we are impelled by the imperative of life itself to live with faith and courage-and the fact that we do so is indeed sublime. _Reinventing the Sacred_ will change the way we all think about the evolution of humanity, the universe, faith, and reason. KW - meta-theology KW - religion KW - science N1 - Sounds like total B.S. to me ... but maybe it's not. AU - Kauffman, Stuart PY - 2008/05/05/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0465003001 ER -