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Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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The question then becomes how to coax an insane world into yielding up its truths, and “Believing Is Seeing” amounts to a provisional, ­pastiche-y, deeply interesting attempt at an answer. Physicist Michael Guillen presents a thesis that “Believing is seeing; seeing is reacting” in his latest book. Dr Guillen (G) tries to drive this basic point home by using various examples from science and religion: All truth does not need 'proof' to warrant its truthfulness. Enabling strangers to quickly do business frees people of the need to be nice, he argues; their trust-building skills could atrophy.

Through the author's knowledge of quantum physics and other topics, we are drawn to the conclusion that believing in God is more rational than believing in a purely evidence based 'see to believe', no god worldview. The same excerpt is also published in Hackernoon on Medium but I did not have editing access and wanted to change the picture, so here it is again. With that said, I would be remiss not to acknowledge that the strength of Morris’s interest and even his “procedure” is best conveyed in the second and third chapters, which deal with the abuses and crimes committed at Abu Ghraib in Iraq by the United States. My dad chose this book to read aloud with me during some hard times, so I'll always have good memories associated with it. In his book Michael Guillen documents his pilgrimage from a ‘pious scientific monk’ through an intellectual and spiritual quest to integrate science and Christianity and establish his current worldview which encompasses both.

Apparently he thinks his audience is smart enough to understand abstract physics concepts, but not enough to remember what he said twenty pages ago. Most passages were discussion-worthy and ignited me to ponder on the subject matter which I always appreciate. Morris smartly begins the book with an anecdote that in many ways sets the tone for his project: his friend asks him, “you mean to tell me that you went all the way to the Crimea because of one sentence written by Susan Sontag? But no one other than the fictional Holmes possesses such a dispassionate (not to say impoverished) perspective on life, and very few people believe, these days, that facts can be plucked so cleanly from the human context. Or quantum entanglement such that observing one particle will disrupt another particle in a completely separate location.

The subtitle of the book describes this work perfectly: “ A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith. While I’m unfortunately unable to identify all of these, the effect is really cool— and you don’t have to be a scientist to appreciate this book.

Guillen taught physics at Harvard, was ABC News' Science Editor, is a three-time Emmy winner, a TV host, movie producer, speaker, bestselling author, and host of the internationally popular podcast "Science+God.

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