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Brave New Worldview |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Walter R. Hearn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,750 Words, 10,416 Characters |
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THE NEW STORY OF SCIENCE
Mind and the Universe
Robert M. Augros and George N. Stanciu
Chicago: Gateway Editions, 1984.
234 pp.
"Story" in The New Story of Science means "a cosmic world view." The authors, a philosopher and a physicist, borrow that usage from cultural historian Thomas Berry (The New Story, 1978). The New Story of their title begins with a series of twentieth-century revolutions--in physics (Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg), neuroscience (Sherrington, Eccles, Sperry, Penfield), psychology (Frankl, Maslow, May), and cosmology (the Big Bang and the Anthropic Principle). The Old Story from which the new is liberating the world is scientific materialism.
Vastness, unity, and light are requisites of a world view, say the authors. Is theirs able to address t...
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... or philosophy. Assurance may come from another source. The second line of that hymn, "Tell me the old, old story," is not "of Newton and his laws." In God and the Astronomers (1978), astronomer Robert Jastrow also took a crack at telling the New Story. In his version, when the searching scientists pull themselves over that final rock, they find people of faith waiting to receive them. vbcrlf
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