Five Stars
I liked “Questioning Evolution” by Maurice Williams which is a collection of 133 essays and articles written by the author over 12 years on his views on the issue of evolution v. creation.
Ever since Darwin wrote, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, the debate has continued on the origin of man and the reason we are here and how we got here. Mr. Williams presents very original and interesting opinions and observations which I very much enjoyed reading.
When Stephen Hawking passed away, I read that the renowned English physicist believed God was an impersonal God. Hawking said, “God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.”
Mr. Williams, however, presents an invitation in the Preface of this book, “even though the human mind is marvelously adapted to understand and engineer the physical universe, it has very little perception of the spiritual world. I don’t think the human mind can observe and experiment with God or any of God’s attributes. At best, it can make speculations of what God might be like but, unlike the physical world, there is nothing to measure and quantify in the spiritual world as there is in the physical world.”
As far as I know, psychologists and scientists do not have proven ways of quantifying faith and trust as they do, for example, in the science of nuclear physics or astrophysics. Yet as I read the authors essays, I realized how little we do know about religion, religious theories, the spiritual world. I also wondered about psychic abilities and other paranormal phenomena, and it seems there is an infinite amount yet to learn.I enjoyed reading the essays and thought-provoking ideas set out in Mr. Williams books as he presents intriguing questions on many subjects.
This book is an amazing collection of essays on various subjects which makes it an enlightening and entertaining book as the essays deal with concepts quickly forgotten in this fast-paced ever-changing world. Well done!
Best to you,
Bruce Miller