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Review of War of the Worldviews

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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The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. -Deepak Chopra

Science and Faith

Regarding your new book War of the Worldviews, maybe both sides need to step outside their belief structures. Science is mankind’s attempt to develop theories to understand the workings of the universe. Faith is using belief to develop “someone” who understands the universe so that we don’t have to. Neither is right, both are methods to deal with the frightening uncertainty of being a self-contained, self-supporting entity in a broad universe. We hate to think we don’t understand or hate to believe we are alone in the universe, the fear of the unknown pushes us toward one end or the other.
In the end, both methods are naught but coping mechanisms to deal with the fear.