The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience

This provocative book "takes you on a fascinating journey from the Old Testament to quantum physics and beyond" (Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award winner). In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments, and practical analogies help us transcend our ordinary lives while challenging us to better understand our place in the cosmos and our dreams of a supernatural God. Through an inventive blend of science, history, philosophy, science fiction, and mind-stretching brainteasers, Pickover unfolds the paradoxes of God like no other writer. He provides glimpses into the infinite, allowing us to think big, and to have daring, limitless dreams. "Bucky Fuller thought big. Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Pickover outdoes them both." —WIRED "Add two doses of Isaac Asimov, and one dose each of Martin Gardner and Carl Sagan, and you get Clifford Pickover, one of the most entertaining and thought provoking writers of our time. You can phone a friend and poll the audience, but the riddles and paradoxes of this marvelous book will leave you with more questions than answers, which is precisely the goal of good literature." —Michael Shermer, New York Times–bestselling author

© 2015 St. Martin's Press (E-bog): 9781250083098

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E-bog: 28. april 2015