Title: The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
Author: Gerald L. Schroeder
Binding: Paperback
Isbn: 0743203259
Size: 5.5" x 8.2" x 0.6"
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 2002-04-30

Product Description

DO YOU BELIEVE?

Gerald Schroeder, an MIT-trained scientist who has worked in both physics and biology, has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular and accessible apostles for the melding of science and religion. He first reconciled science and faith as different perspectives on a single whole in The Science of God. Now, in The Hidden Face of God, Schroeder takes a bold step forward, to show that science, properly understood, provides positive reasons for faith.

From the wisdom encoded in DNA and analyzed by information science, to the wisdom unveiled in the fantastic complexity of cellular life, to the wisdom inherent in human consciousness, The Hidden Face of God offers a tour of the best of modern science. This fascinating volume will open a world of science to religious believers, and it will cause skeptics to rethink some of their deepest beliefs.

most enlightening
reveals how the truth is best served by the religious sciences and natural sciences together.

Dr. Schroeder is in love with the universe!
That much is abundantly clear in "The Hidden Face of God." Through the use of scientific explanation regarding the big bang, space-time, the 4 natural forces (gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear) and the workings of the human body from conception to the brain-mind problem; Dr. Schroeder argues convincingly that for all the ducks to have lined up as they did to allow the formation of what we witness before us on a daily basis - just simply couldn't have happened by chance!

This book is a good thorough treatise and explanation of the phrase "God is in the details." To pare down to the essence of this book; you will not see the boat that went by, but you'll know it was there by it's wake, or to put it another way, you'll never see the face of God but his fingerprints are all over creation.

A good but not stellar (pun intended) 3 star read.

Idolatry
Schroeder's God appears to be an idol Schroeder created from the substance of his own ignorance, which he ironically calls "wisdom". Searching for God in the gaps of Schroeder's biological knowledge is not what I was hoping for when I bought this book.
If you would like a scientific explanation of Shroeder's gaps I would recommend Sean Carroll's books "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" and "The Making of the Fittest" and Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish". I found them more palatable than Richard Dawkins books, because they were able to give scientific explanations without trying disprove religious belief.

Pulls things together. Wonderful book!!
The author did an amazing job of explaining and integrating many complex concepts. His central hypothesis that everything in creation is basically information/wisdom/knowledge is brilliant. I found it extremely helpful for better understanding the universe and God.

Not Impressed
It's been a long time since I read this, but I remember being unconvinced even though I was like 14 when I saw it at a bookstore. It's just a 200 page argument from design. "See this is really neat, therefore there is a God." It doesn't devolve into Behe-esque pseudosience or anything, but is actually less sophisticated than the arguments IDiots use. Less pseudoscientific, but also mostly an emotional appeal, so it's equally UNscientific.

Little of the book is dedicated to addressing discrepancies between modern science and traditional understandings of Judaeochristian scripture or to actually building a logical case for the existence of God. In short, while you'll probably learn a few things, the book fails at its own mission.