Early on, in her penetrating new book “A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet” (Beacon Press), Nancy Ellen Abrams declares: “I have no interest in a God that has to be believed in.” God, she writes, shou...
For most of my life, a God that was “real” seemed a contradiction in terms. Every idea of God I had ever encountered seemed either physically impossible or so vague as to be empty. I was an atheist married to a famous scientist. But a time came w...
Is there any way atheists could believe in a god?Not the one in the Bible, of course. Not one that answers prayers or created the universe. But what about one that gives us comfort and empowers us?That’s the premise behind Nancy Abrams‘ new book ...
After Copernicus, we know that Earth is not at the center of the universe. Our planet is merely the "third rock from the sun" on the edge of one spiral galaxy, which in turn is merely one among more than a billion galaxies in the universe. After Darw...
Nancy Abrams needed a higher power. As one of the premiere science writers of our time, she found both the Iron Age gods of the Abrahamic faiths and the pseudo-scientific mysticisms of New Age gurus wanting. So she turned to what she knew best: scien...
Is there any way an atheist could believe in a god?Not the one in the Bible, of course. Not one that answers prayers or created the universe. But what about one that gives us comfort and empowers us?That’s the premise behind Nancy Abrams‘ new boo...
A song that could be silent. An ocean that could be dry. How about a book that could be nothing but deepities? That last one exists: it’s called A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet by Nancy Ellen Abrams, an...
Abrams, a lawyer and coauthor of books on cosmology (The New Universe and the Human Future), had long-standing disdain for organized religion and oversimplified approaches to faith and God. But a personal crisis with an eating disorder prompted her t...
Welcome back a local favorite and world-renowned co-author of The View from the Center of the Universe, Nancy Abrams, for an exploration of science, religion, and philosophy. A God That Could Be Real approaches a paradigm-shifting look at the possibi...
Nancy Abrams, after being an atheist for her whole life, set out to discover a god she could believe in. The search started because Abrams has an eating disorder. After joining a Twelve Step Program, she realized that belief in a Higher Power helped ...