Reviews for The Garden of Eden and the hope of immortality

The average rating for The Garden of Eden and the hope of immortality based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-06 00:00:00 Pearson Ahuna An interesting glimpse of how the whole mass of philosophic and religious issues around free will, consciousness, a providential God, and life after death looked to a Nobel-winning quantum physicist in 1935. [He was an unabashed theist and believer in free will, if you want to cut to the conclusions.] The first two chapters are the most interesting. I think the discussion of the significance of the uncertainty principle, that there are physical limits to our ability to probe the causal structure of nature, and that there is all the room one could need down at the quantum scale for indeterminism and free will, is still pretty much valid. The neuroscience of the day has probably been transcended, but it's still interesting to peek at this time capsule. In any case it's short and extremely readable. If you can get your hands on a copy, it's well worth a few hours.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-30 00:00:00 david danna This book explores several different faiths and makes a valiant attempt at seeing them from their own perspective. Which of course is ultimately impossible, both for an outsider and to try and impose one perspective on things that have such wide interpretations even from insiders. But, it is fascinating and I enjoyed his respectful position.