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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