The varieties of scientific experience : a personal view of the search for God
(2006)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
215/SAGAN,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2006
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
1594201072, 9781594201073
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The author's 1985 Gifford lectures
Nature and wonder: a reconnaisance of heaven -- The retreat from Copernicus: a modern loss of nerve -- The organic universe -- Extraterrestrial intelligence -- Extraterrestrial folklore: implications for the evolution of religion -- The God hypothesis -- The religious experience -- Crimes against creation -- The search for who we are -- Selected Q & A