03440cam a2200349 4500 531890968 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781538489796 1538489791 fb80f94f-fee7-43df-9860-3b7bed8bb37e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781538596395 9781538596395 3488558 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lightman, Alan. Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine [Libby]. Blackstone Publishing, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 144MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 144MB. Philosophy. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>From the acclaimed author of <i>Einstein's Dreams,</i> an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world</b></p> <p>As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of the universe, which is governed by a small number of disembodied forces and laws. Those laws decree that all things in the world are material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himself-a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute and immaterial.</p> <p><i>Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine</i> is the result of these seemingly contradictory impulses, written as an extended meditation on an island in Maine, where Lightman and his wife spend their summers. Framing the dialogue between religion and science as a contrast between absolutes and relatives, Lightman explores our human quest for truth and meaning and the different methods of religion and science in that quest. Along the way, he draws from sources ranging from St. Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's relativity, from a belief in the divine and eternal nature of stars to their discovered materiality and mortality, from the unity of the once indivisible atom to the multiplicity of subatomic particles and the recent notion of multiple universes. What emerges is not only an understanding of the encounter between science and religion but also a profound exploration of the complexity of human existence.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Pinchot, Bronson. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3488558-SearchingForStarsOnAnIslandInMaine.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fb80f94f-fee7-43df-9860-3b7bed8bb37e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3488558-SearchingForStarsOnAnIslandInMaine.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fb80f94f-fee7-43df-9860-3b7bed8bb37e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)