Reviews for Managing the Human Side of Information Technology Challenges and Solutions

The average rating for Managing the Human Side of Information Technology Challenges and Solutions based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-02 00:00:00 Jeff Martin A disappointing read, as I am told by my non-scientist, religious friends that this is a great essay. Don't get me wrong though: Polkinghorne knows his material inside out - both the high energy physics and the theology - and as an introduction to the issues at the heart of the relationship between science and religion (and in particular, Christianity) it is very good. However, Polkinghorne offers no compelling resolution of the real difficulties between faith and reason in the late 20th (and now 21st) century. At best, this is a 'one-idea' book, the idea being the notion that God somehow pushes quantum probabilities one way rather than another in our Universe, and that is how his action comes about. The problem of the historical placement of Jesus is way too casually brushed over. All in all, a frustrating read.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-04 00:00:00 Joshua Nelson "The poverty of an objectivist account is made only too clear when we consider the mystery of music. From a scientific point of view, it is nothing but vibrations in the air, impinging on the eardrums and stimulating neural currents in the brain. How does it come about that this banal sequence of temporal activity has the power to speak to our hearts of an eternal beauty? The whole range of subjective experience, from perceiving a patch of pink, to being enthralled by a performance of the Mass in B Minor, and on to the mystic's encounter with the ineffable reality of the One, all these truly human experiences are at the center of our encounter with reality, and they are not to be dismissed as epiphenomenal froth on the surface of a universe whose true nature is impersonal and lifeless." -John Polkinghorne, from Belief in God in an Age of Science