Reddit reviews The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom

> The universe must be closed in order for it to have emerged from quantum fluctuation. - I know nothing on this one, so I'll have to leave it unanswered.

Schroder is not a cosmologist, he has a degree in nuclear physics. While it is from MIT that does not automatically make him qualified to talk about cosmology. In his book, The Science of God, where he tries to merge the big bang and a literal 7 day creation, me made it clear he knows very little about cosmology or even relativity. He made a few mistakes that I was able to catch and a few that I read about on a critique of the book. The most glaring is that he talks about special relativity then turns around and treats somewhere as if it has a special frame of reference. A more subtle, but equally serious, issue was that he misused the variable e in a few equations, he took a special case of energy and used it as if it were a general. A cosmologist would have caught that in a second.

Shcroder makes material that looks convincing to a lay person and doesn't invite further investigation to those who are already convinced. What he does not do is real research (on this subject), he makes secondary material that doesn't undergo the peer review process and isn't subject to scrutiny from others in the field. This is not by accident, he does this because his religious arguments are nonsense and he knows the common person won't be able to call him on it. If he wants to be taken seriously he needs to get this stuff published then turn it into a secondary resource. That's what everyone else has to do.

What about his book impressed you, specifically? I always felt that the author's attempt to mathematically justify the Genesis creation myth was as embarrassing contrived as Bible codes.

Gerald Schroeder has two great books on it. The Science of God and Genesis and the Big Bang.

He provides one possible framework showing that Creationism and Evolution are not at odds. He also has audio version available at Aishaudio.com.

>. I've actually been wanting to look into the history of the Earth and see how different periods in our planetary history (when the planet cooled into recognizable "land," the first appearance of the oceans, the first appearance of complex life, the first appearance of the species homo sapien etc) and see how that corresponds to the "days" in Genesis. It would be really cool if there were some discernible pattern or correlation between the two!

There is!!! And it is actually more complex and staggering than you can imagine..

http://www.amazon.com/The-Science-God-Convergence-Scientific/dp/076790303X

This book single-handedly jumpstarted my faith back .

Thanks for this AMA

chapter 3. page 45