Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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He has found for himself arguments that enable him to put aside his atheism to reconcile a belief in God / Christianity alongside his work as a scientist. That referring to him judging how trans people are just “responding to their emotions” and doesn’t think maybe that’s literally their personality and how God created them? The model illustrates how our assumptions shape the way we see the world and how we form conclusions about a certain situation based on our assumptions.

Here we have a book written by a highly accomplished, 3x PhD scientist who has a knack for explaining scientific concepts to a lay audience. I think this book is an excellent tool for young people (say, high-school/ college-age)— Christians and non-Christians alike! Is it not through discourse, interpretation, the acts of viewing and re-viewing that we construct complex relations with an image—relations that link an image to another present and yet another, thereby opening the images and, by extension, ourselves to unforeseen futures?

As I investigated the credibility of what the Bible says about Jesus, I quickly realized there’s far more hard evidence for his resurrection than there is for quasars generally and ULAS J1342+0928 in particular. Most of us will have been in situations where we found ourselves disagreeing with someone over how to assess a certain situation or interpret a certain reaction by someone else. The subtitle of the book describes this work perfectly: “ A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith.

It felt more like he was fighting his past atheism and the atheism of other scientists when he talks about assumptions that can’t be proved, which essentially is what science is about- trying to prove things. On their own math, physics, astronomy, and the scientific method are lacking in their abilities to answer central questions about our universe. Only in the middle of Believing Is Seeing does Morris ask a series of questions that have been foundational to historiographic and theoretical debates about photography: “While the technology may have changed, the underlying issues remain constant.Enabling strangers to quickly do business frees people of the need to be nice, he argues; their trust-building skills could atrophy. But I mention it only to sharply contrast it with Morris’s conclusion on this issue: “And even if Sontag is right, namely that Fenton moved the cannonballs to telegraph the horrors of war, what’s so bad about that? Or quantum entanglement such that observing one particle will disrupt another particle in a completely separate location.