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A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet Audiobook, by Nancy Ellen Abrams Play Audiobook Sample

A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet Audiobook

A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet Audiobook, by Nancy Ellen Abrams Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Nancy Ellen Abrams, Tara Sands Publisher: Beacon Press Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780807094686

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

59

Longest Chapter Length:

08:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

24 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

07:44 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for the agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded reader   Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them. Too often it perpetuates conflict, vilifies science, and undermines reason. Nancy Abrams—a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist—is among these people, but she has also found freedom in imagining a higher power.   In A God That Could Be Real, Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science—but that this doesn’t preclude a God that can comfort and empower us.   Moving away from traditional arguments for God, Abrams finds something worthy of the name “God” in the new science of emergence: just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants, and just as the global economy emerges from the interactions of billions of individuals’ choices, God, she argues, is an “emergent phenomenon” that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity’s collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual. This God did not create the universe—it created the meaning of the universe. It’s not universal—it’s planetary. It can’t change the world, but it helps us change the world. A God that could be real, Abrams shows us, is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.

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About Nancy Ellen Abrams

Tara Sands is an American actress, television host, and voice talent who has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. She is former cohost of Fridays on the Cartoon Network. In addition to performing in plays and musicals, her voice can be heard on numerous commercials, audiobooks, cartoons, and video games.