Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01LO3MCDY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 482 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mark Traphagen said I didn't want to like this book (from a still-unconverted atheist). [WARNING: This review contains spoilers, if it is possible to spoil a memoir. If you prefer to go on Mike's journey via his book without my "giving it away," you may want to skip this.]I really got off on the wrong foot with Science Mike.My first encounter with this book came in a Facebook post promoting a personal appearance by the author at a Christian university, posted by my friend and former professor, biblical scholar Pete Enns. I think it was actually the subtitle of the book ("How I lost my faith and found it again through science") that set off alarms in my BS detector.I assumed FGitW was yet another boo. the painful process of unlearning my spoon-fed theology and seeking deeply I remember years ago sitting around a campfire talking with some kids I mentored about God and the questions that surround this mystery. One child shared a story about how his church had brought in a creationist to “totally destroy science.” In other words they brought in a man who held very strictly to the biblical teaching of a six day created, 6,000 year old universe. Anything that taught otherwise was to be rejected.I remember sitting through the Religion Program at Florida State University and hearing lecture after lecture that revealed that the Bible didn’t behave the way I had always been. Thank You Mike, I don't think I can thank-you enough for writing this book and sharing your story. I've been deconstructed for a while now. Your story and your perspective give me hope that I can find God again, and not feel insane for believing nor feel like a heretic for believing differently.To You, the skeptic, the atheist, the deconstructed, whose wondering if this book is worth it, I can not do justice to the hope that bloomed inside my chest as I read through it's pages. I have been anticipating this book, while having a very real fear of being let down. In the year of having my faith fall completely apart nothing h
Mike McHargue understands the pain of unraveling belief. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray; how fundamentalism affects the psyche; and how God is revealed not only in scripture but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us.. In Finding God in the Waves, Mike tells the story of how his Evangelical faith dissolved into atheism as he studied the Bible, a crisis that threatened his identity, his friendships, and even his marriage. What do you do when God dies? It's a question facing millions today, as science reveals a universe that's self-creating, American culture departs from Christian social norms, and the idea of God begins to seem implausible at best and destructive at worst. But this time, it wasn't theology or scripture that led him back to God - it was science. In Finding God in the Waves, "Science Mike" draws on his personal experience to tell the unlikely story of how science led him back to faith. Years later, Mike was standing on the shores of the Pacific Ocean when a bewildering, seemingly mystical moment motivated him to take another look