In this book, I had assumed that this would be- because of what school I attend- a book that has to do with sorting all science into two categories: under God or mythical and falling into a pseudo-science. The author, Francis Collins proves me wrong by creating a professional view on the "religion vs. science" debate and putting it all into words.
In this book, Collins follows of a Kantian-like tradition from not Michael Gardner but rather authors such as German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), attempting while not specifically naming the logician to combine the practical and the supernatural theories and views, the cold logical reason and the more emotional reason. In a three-part book, Collins successfully combines religion and science all into one central idea.
In the first part of this book, Collins reveals his atheism-driven past and his later outlook towards a theistic-like worldview. He begins the book by rhetorically asking the readers a central question: “In this modern era of cosmology, evolution, and the human genome, is there still the possibility of a richly satisfying harmony …show more content…
Collins mentions the “God of the gaps”, which can mean either the claim for a gap in nature or a criticism of the gapped claim although Collins had created a logical explanation on how things can’t always be explained, it’s still a struggling question in my mind as to why everything cannot be explained and how, if it is explained, there is only a basic outline of the explanation and it has fallen into a mold that is supposed to be holding everyone’s questions and creating them all to basic questions that can only be answered with either science or religion. As frustrating or confusing as it sounds, Collins was successful in creating arguably one of the most logical explanations and in response to the science and religion