Reddit reviews God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We've Been Wrong About God All Along

Daytime reading: God According to God by Gerald Schroeder.

Evening reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

My husband and I also regularly listen to books on tape, usually of the C. S. Lewis variety. We practically have The Great Divorce memorized at this point.

I enjoy fiction and nonfiction alike, but it's gotta tickle my brain. If it leaves me feeling brain dead, I toss it quickly.

>conflicts between science and religion

By religion I mean the texts that make up a religion - not the popular interpretations of those texts. (This argument works for Judaism, Christianity and Islam - it may not hold true for other religions)

So there are three possibilities:

1. Science is wrong and the 'text' is right. In order to take this position one has to deny the human capacity for reason (which is the foundation of free will). This therefore denies one of the basic beliefs of your religion and this position should be rejected.
   
   
2. Science is right and the 'text' is wrong. In order to take this position one has to deny the significance of their religion. IT also ignored all the gaps in scientific explanations. Thus this position should also be rejected.
   
   
3. Science is right and the text is right. This means that any apparent contradiction between the text and science is a result of your misunderstanding of either the science, or the text.
   
   So there is not really any conflict between science and religion, there is only conflict in heads of those who cling to dogma rather than use their capacity for reason.
   
   You might find these books interesting:
   
   Genesis and the Big Bang
   
   God According to God

They CAN be backed up, and there are several hundreds of books doing just that. My personal favorite is God According to God. So, they can be, don't you worry about that.