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

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Excellent presentation of what faith looks like for an atheist scientist of the highest level who is willing to challenge himself on reality and desire others to do so as well. stars for some interesting ideas, 2 stars for a lack of style and sometimes a lack of substance, and 1 star for transphobia. There (almost annoyingly) was a sense of profound logic that I could not ignore, though, about Christianity that I felt Christians were not as interested in.

But if “Believing Is Seeing” is a collection of detective stories, there is even more mystery at hand than Morris lets on. Neuroscientists and quantum physicists agree that every act of perception also contains an act of conception.

What this book attempts to do (quite successfully in my opinion) is to reconcile science and spiritual belief.

Cons: Throughout the book, the author brings up fringe areas of science that are not yet well understood and are quite mysterious and uses these to imply that science is not particularly reliable, doesn’t really know about the universe, and requires faith. Although several of his points the author emphasized felt repeated to the point of redundancy, I found it beneficial since I struggle with comprehension. New technologies, from sharing-economy apps to the blockchain, offer routes around some of the trust deficits that stand in the way of growth.After the initial act of healing, like a modern doctor, Jesus asks his patient whether he can see anything before giving him additional ‘treatment’. Vineyard Churches UK and Ireland is a Charitable Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under Company No. While the book was a little bit different than what I had expected, (more of a personal narrative driving home the importance of worldview) I was very impressed with the engaging writing. Throughout Believing Is Seeing, Morris asserts that his interest is in the complicated terrain between photography and epistemology—that is, the relationship between photography and knowledge.