Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

<b>A story about having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science—revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.</b><br />  <br />Mike McHargue, host of <i>The Liturgists</i> and <i>Ask Science Mike </i>podcasts, understands the pain of unraveling belief. In <i>Finding God in the Waves</i>, Mike tells the story of how his Evangelical faith dissolved into atheism as he studied the Bible, a crisis that threatened his identity, his friendships, and even his marriage. Years later, Mike was standing on the shores of the Pacific Ocean when a bewildering, seemingly mystical moment motivated him to take another look. But this time, it wasn't theology or scripture that led him back to God—it was science. <br />  <br /> Full of insights about the universe, as well as deeply personal reflections on our desire for certainty and meaning, <i>Finding God in the Waves</i> is a vital exploration of the possibility for knowing God in an age of reason, and a signpost for where the practice of faith is headed in a secular age. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray; how fundamentalism affects the psyche; and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but also in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us.