Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

That only leaves the question of who the “he” is here. Maybe the “God of Spinoza,” the one Einstein once described as “reveal[ing] himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.” In other words, the God of the physical laws of the universe, a kind of literary—but not literal—personification, along the lines of Mother Nature. I have always loved thi

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And these days I seek out my faith in other doctrines’ – he gestured at a spectrograph nearby, and a four-inch reflecting telescope fitted with filters to aid in observations of the sun. ‘I supplement God with physics, and understand each as well as the other. Which is to say: not in the least! But I find it magnificent, knowledge piled on knowledg

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