The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

by Kitty Ferguson

Book Overview

In The Fire in the Equations, popular science writer Kitty Ferguson brings to life age-old questions in a lively and informative way. She makes complicated physics and biology theories understandable, and describes new ways of seeing how God may interact with the world, as seen in light of these discoveries. She even raises such questions as "how God might answer prayers" from the point of view of physics. In taking the reader through a world of paradoxes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802838057
• ISBN13: 9780802838056
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Complex View of the Ultimate Question

This book is one of my personal favorites. I love the way the author seemlessly blends the ideas of cutting edge science with religion, philosophy and pretty much anything revolving around the concept of a search for God. this book is written in a remarkably neutral perspective. the author makes a point to try to seem nonpartisan. The ideas here are rather complex so one might want to dedicate their full attention to absorb the full implications. I could read this again and again.

A book worth reading

This Book does a great job showing the conflicts and the harmony between science an religion. This book really is fair and as balanced as it's going to get on the subject. This book shows that while science is a reliable tool, you can't use it to answer every question. It also shows how you can't really use you religion or lack of it to "prove" that God does or doesn't exist.All I ask as a engineer major is that "Is the belief in God reasonable?" I beleive so, but the use of science for proof won't be considered. Since the Big Bang has limited us to what we can know, I think that it is the question most of us show ask ourselves. **As for what some others have said.Since natualism is the method we use to discover things in science, then there shouldn't be any surprise when science seems atheistic.Duh, Most people relize that alot of scientific results seems to suggest otherwise. So spare the public with crap like "science supports athesim" , you must have not read the book.

An AMAZING book about Quantum Physics and God

This book is fairly deep and it will take a fair bit of concentration to understand the concepts it's talking about but the insight recieved is well worth the effort. It clearly explains the fairly complex theories of quantum physics and looks at how a creator (God) can fit into it all. Kitty is very fair and logical in her look at the arguments and just when you think she's won the argument for one "side" she throws a spanner in the works and does a back flip with a new piece of information.I really enjoyed this book because it helped me to understand different theories of the begining of time and the Universe. It has a lot of philosophy which I also enjoyed. I love astronomy, physics, reading, logic and God. This book combines all these ingredients well. You will look at the Universe in a whole different way after reading The Fire in the Equations.

Senator Advocate Geoffrey's Review

A brilliant tour de review and outstanding integration of science, religion, philosophy and personal inferences.This is a highly thought provoking book. The author fearlessly asks some brave questions and digs deeper into the oceans of ignorance surrounding science. All the stuff you thought you once knew is suddenly turned upside down. This book is the book the World has been waiting for. Not only has this book been reviewed and proof checked by a considerable amount of experts and members of the general public, but the author demonstrates that she is actually thinking about what she was saying, instead of just being dogmatic. She has also done a considerable amount of homework and talking to people. This is exactly what we need and I encourage this from more authors. There is lots of useful stuff in this book.Both believers and non believers can come to a common place of understanding and communicate freely without any conflict whatsoever. All truth is one whether or not we get it from the test-tube or from The Bible. Well done Kitty. Brilliant job.

Well-balanced, layman's guide to science and faith.

Kitty Ferguson has taken on an enormous task, attempting to write an objective study of what place--if any--faith in a Judeo-Christian God has in a serious study of science. The book begins with a detailed analysis of epistemology and then sets up increasingly personal and interfering gods against other cosmologies to see where conflicts and inconsistencies crop up. She does such a good job, in fact, that her viewpoint is left quite debateable.