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From the back jacket blurb:<\/p>\n
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This book is aimed at people who subscribe to science as a path to truth, whether or not they subscribe to a faith tradition. \u00a0It is also aimed at people who are religious \u2014 and refuse to accept the false dichotomy that science and religion are mutually exclusive. \u00a0We show that it is not only possible to be a scientist and a believer in God \u2014 but that you can\u2019t honestly separate the two. \u00a0We show how science and religion both start with unprovable fundamental assumptions; and that science and religion depend heavily on inspiration and both require faith. \u00a0We believe that true religion holds in common with good science the ability \u2014 the requirement \u2014 that it can be tested. \u00a0We note that in both religious and scientific spheres most knowledge is acquired by indirect means.<\/span><\/p>\nWe separate science from technology, with which it is often conflated, and from bad statistics, from pseudoscience, and from how science is often reported in the popular press \u2014 and we give you the tools to do this yourself. \u00a0We also point out the crucial contributions from philosophy and history that enforce honesty in modern scientific research.<\/span><\/p>\nWe examine the very human flaws of scientism, and discuss how blindered science and blindered religion (closed-mindedness and \u201ccherry-picking\u201d) are equally self-crippling approaches to the truth. \u00a0We do NOT try to \u201cprove\u201d scientifically that God exists or that a particular religion is true \u2014 science doesn\u2019t have the tools for this. Nevertheless, we review some startling hints, including things unknown in 1830 when the Book of Mormon was published, such as the Frankincense Trail, Uto-Aztecan linguistic links to central Arabia, and volcano-tectonic events in Central America, among others. \u00a0We even identify a likely \u201csmoking gun\u201d for 3 Nephi 8. \u00a0Recent discoveries in cosmology \u2014 information already available in a hymn written in 1835 \u2014 show how rare (but not unique) are the chances for life as we know it elsewhere in the universe, along with the implications.<\/span><\/p>\nWe are encouraged by growing evidence that science and religion are rapidly converging on a larger truth, a Truth which will stand the test of time and all the fashionable trends and evolving prejudices. \u00a0This convergence is actually accelerating towards that one great whole that we are all seeking, something much greater than our current understanding in either realm. \u00a0A young man with a 3rd grade education first opened the door for us in 1828.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I look forward to reading this new book.<\/p>\n
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