Dad of Divas' Reviews: Book Review - Religion Versus Science

Monday, November 8, 2010

Book Review - Religion Versus Science

About the Book
Frost's remarkably wide-ranging volume offers the reader a helpful survey of the troubled road that led to the current controversy over scientific theories of origins. More than just another book on creation versus evolution, Science vs. Spirituality locates the controversy in the inability of science to deal effectively with the realm of consciousness and mind, where our deepest needs and most profound experiences reside. Writing from an eastern, Buddhist perspective, Frost offers a fresh perspective on one of the deepest questions of our time. (Karl Giberson, Ph.D., Author of Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution and Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion with Mariano Artigas)

Product Description

As commonly presented the great battle between science and religion over evolution is intractable. This book maintains that the approaches both sides take in the debate drive most of the fury in the debate. Although the facts of evolution are beyond doubt, the big mistake that many scientists make is to present these facts using a materialistic premise that is not scientifically defendable. The resulting model for evolution implies that humans arose on this planet merely by chance, that the value of our lives is based only upon the genes that we carry within us, and that our lives are essentially meaningless. Naturally religious people recoil in horror as such a bleak view of human existence. In this book Dr. Frost argues that all the World's Religions advocate for the existence of a transcendent consciousness. Scientific studies can in no way prove or disprove the existence of this consciousness.

My Take on the Book
This was a deep book, and one that looks at all aspects of the questions that many of us have had in the past between Religion and Science. The difference in this book was that it looks at both sides of the arguments for Religion and Science and regards to the debate. I liked the different sections of the book and the different models that the book shares so many more than I ever knew existed. A very interesting read!

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