In this series of posts about science and spirituality I’ve left God for last, even though God has become the hottest topic as we struggle toward the future. The arguments against belief in God have been stridently raised by a small band of scientific atheists – their avowed leader, Richard Dawkins, has become a household name. In our recent book, War of the Worldviews, my co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow, doesn’t pursue the atheist line. His worldview is scientific, but Leonard holds a view that is much more defensible than atheism: (more…)

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I’m listening to spiritualist Deepak Chopra and physicist Leonard Mlodinow discuss their science vs. spirituality debate, now a book titled War of the Worldviews, and was prepared to dismiss it as hokey and unserious. But both are clearly cutting-edge thinkers who are probing the opportunities and edges of science — and then considering where spirituality and morality come in, though Chopra starts from that corner while Mlodinow makes a powerful case that mankind’s advances are built on rationality, scientific endeavor, and constructive engagement with problems.

Steve Clemons is Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor in chief of Atlantic.

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Deepak Chopra, with Andrew Harvey, Rabbi David Ingber and Banafsheh Sayyad, celebrate the Sufi poet, Rumi. At ABC Home & Carpet, NYC.

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