Calculating God
Calculating God

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1429914599

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Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien mother ship, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time (one example of these "cataclysmic events" would be the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets. From this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. The evidence of God's universal existence is not universally well received on Earth, nor even immediately believed. And it reveals nothing of God's nature. In fact. it poses more questions than it answers. When a supernova explodes out in the galaxy but close enough to wipe out life on all three home-worlds, the big question is, Will God intervene or is this the sixth cataclysm:? Calculating God is SF on the grand scale. Calculating God is a 2001 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Calculating God
Calculating God

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780765322890

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The provocative, near-future SF thriller from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author

The Probability of God
The Probability of God

Author: Dr. Stephen D. Unwin

Publisher: Forum Books

Published: 2004-10-26

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1400054788

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Does God exist? This is probably the most debated question in the history of mankind. Scholars, scientists, and philosophers have spent their lifetimes trying to prove or disprove the existence of God, only to have their theories crucified by other scholars, scientists, and philosophers. Where the debate breaks down is in the ambiguities and colloquialisms of language. But, by using a universal, unambiguous language—namely, mathematics—can this question finally be answered definitively? That’s what Dr. Stephen Unwin attempts to do in this riveting, accessible, and witty book, The Probability of God. At its core, this groundbreaking book reveals how a math equation developed more than 200 years ago by noted European philosopher Thomas Bayes can be used to calculate the probability that God exists. The equation itself is much more complicated than a simple coin toss (heads, He’s up there running the show; tails, He’s not). Yet Dr. Unwin writes with a clarity that makes his mathematical proof easy for even the nonmathematician to understand and a verve that makes his book a delight to read. Leading you carefully through each step in his argument, he demonstrates in the end that God does indeed exist. Whether you’re a devout believer and agree with Dr. Unwin’s proof or are unsure about all things divine, you will find this provocative book enlightening and engaging. “One of the most innovative works [in the science and religion movement] is The Probability of God...An entertaining exercise in thinking.”—Michael Shermer, Scientific American “Unwin’s book [is] peppered with wry, self-deprecating humor that makes the scientific discussions more accessible...Spiritually inspiring.”--Chicago Sun Times “A pleasantly breezy account of some complicated matters well worth learning about.”--Philadelphia Inquirer “One of the best things about the book is its humor.”--Cleveland Plain Dealer “In a book that is surprisingly lighthearted and funny, Unwin manages to pack in a lot of facts about science and philosophy.”--Salt Lake Tribune

End of An Era
End of An Era

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-10-19

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1429914653

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Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles 'Klicks' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimey blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both? At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Flashforward
Flashforward

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1429914580

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Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times Book Review called Frameshift "filled to bursting with ideas, characters and incidents." His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Sawyer now brings us Flashforward, the story of a world-shattering discovery. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flashforward and see their successes ... or learn how to avoid their failures. Winner of the Aurora Award and the basis for the hit ABC television series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

God Has an App for That
God Has an App for That

Author: Dudley Rutherford

Publisher: Revell

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1441225641

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Wouldn't it be great if there were accessible answers to our spiritual problems, just like there's a smartphone app for calculating a tip or getting directions to the dry cleaner? Most of us have heard the phrase "There's an app for that," popularized by the creators of the iPhone. Well, guess what? God has an app for the common conundrums faced by Christians everywhere. Stressed out? Struggling with prejudice? God has an app for that. Problem with crude language or gossip? Broken-hearted, anxious or depressed? God has an app for that, too! Pastor Dudley Rutherford invites readers to explore the book of James and discover God's user-friendly solutions for their biggest challenges in faith and life.

Frameshift
Frameshift

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780765313164

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A scientist in Berkeley, California discovers that a series of murders is the work of an insurance company. After collecting information on the genes of policy holders, the company analyzed them to see which ones were a bad risk and proceeded to kill them. By the author of The Terminal Experiment.

Rollback
Rollback

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-03

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780765311085

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Sawyers Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel explores morals and ethics on both human and cosmic scales. Likable characters facing big ethical dilemmas . . . [a] smoothly readable near-future SF novel.--"Publishers Weekly."

Do Dice Play God?
Do Dice Play God?

Author: Ian Stewart

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2019-06-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 178283401X

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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty - we prefer the surprise party to the surprise asteroid. We began our quest to make certain an uncertain world by reading omens in livers, tea leaves, and the stars. However, over the centuries, driven by curiosity, competition, and a desire be better gamblers, pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us. Worse, as we realized how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power. Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.

God and the New Physics
God and the New Physics

Author: P. C. W. Davies

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1984-10-16

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0671528068

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Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.