Nancy Ellen Abrams asks, "Could anything actually exist in the scientific universe that is worthy of being called God?". Abrams is a former atheist - and the God she now believes in is rather mind-blowing.
Nancy's unwanted conversion began when she entered a 12-step program for an eating disorder and was forced to call on a higher power. In her search for something she could actually believe in, she thought with a shock: atheists have "merely stated what God can't be. We haven't considered yet what God could be."
The God Abrams now believes in is based on the idea of emergence - in which a group of things combines to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Think ants and what they accomplish as a colony. Or air molecules that create temperature by individual movement.
Find the full podcast at cbc.ca/radio/tapestry
