God's Debris
Here's an interesting book - in many ways.
The most unusual first - it's free :) Yep, you can download it from
the Dilbert
comic page, at no monetary cost. I say no
monetary cost, because it might
wind up costing you some time. It was that way for me - I wasn't able to stop
reading it until I had finished it. And, just as Scott Adams expected when he
offered it for free, I immediately bought the hardcover as a gift for others :)
It has a very interesting dialogue and conclusion. There are elements of the
cosmology suggested in the book that I find superfluous, but I don't see that
those elements invalidate the possibility that the main thesis is correct.
And I say "correct", even though Adams (in authorial voice) never seems to be
proposing his notions in this book as any kind of "truth", just an interesting
thought experiment. But I have looked at it, and there's nothing in this notion
that actually invalidates my own Christian beliefs (although it certainly takes
them around Robin Hood's barn :) (N.B. - I did not say that this book has the
Truth - I said that the elements I don't agree with don't in any way invalidate
the possibility that the main thesis is spot on. Saying something is possible
isn't the same thing as saying that is is true (well, actually, maybe for those
of us who see ourselves as predestinarians, saying that somethign is possible IS
saying that it is true, but that's another trip down the logic lane that I don't
want to take right now :))
So it's unusual in that you can read it for free, and in that it presents a set
of ideas that seem to me to be internally consistent (and, at the same time, just
mind boggling :) In addition, pretty much the entire book takes place as a dialogue.
Or even a dialectic. A Socratic dialectic.
Anyway, it has occurred to me that many folks haven't even heard of this book, so
I thought I would take the opportunity to let folks know that it's out there.
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