The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science Is Discovering God in Everything, Including Us

DOES GOD EXIST ONLY IN OUR HEARTS?

According to highly esteemed scientist Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., there is compelling scientific evidence that we no longer have to accept God on faith alone. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Harvard University-educated Dr. Schwartz blends psychology, quantum physics, and mathematics to examine the science of spirit. Faith and science are not mutually exclusive, and abetter understanding of their relationship can lead us to recognize how God operates in everything.

Trained in the scientific method as an "open-minded skeptic," Dr. Schwartz was taught how to raise questions, turn them into hypotheses, and design experiments to test them. He was not trained to consider the nature of God. And yet, his scientific research led him directly to the discovery of God's existence in intelligent evolution and everyday life.

Scientifically rigorous and spiritually reassuring, this eye-opening book is a wake-up call for anyone who wonders about life's true meaning and who longs to believe in the existence of a universal intelligence.

CONTENTS

Prologue

Can Science Take Us to God?

Part One: THE SCIENCE OF PROPHECY

1. Foreseeing God in the Laboratory

How Evidence for Design Shows Up in Prophetic Dreams

2. Discovering Intelligent Design in Our Lives

A Stunning Conclusion to an Extraordinary Psychic Experiment

Part Two: SIMPLE G.O.D. EXPERIMENTS

3. K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple Science

Sand Paintings Never Occur by Chance

4. G.O.D in the Computer

How Your Personal Computer Can Teach You About God

Part Three: CAN YOU COMMUNICATE WITH G.O.D.?

5. Talking to an Intelligent Black Box

How Science Fiction Sometimes Provides a Key to Reality

6. I Asked the Universe a Question

G.O.D. Is Revealed in the Hidden Details

7. I Asked the Universe More Questions

The Answer Sparkles Like a Diamond

8. Interesting and Amusing Theories

A Physicist Concludes, "It's Absolutely Worth Thinking About."

Part Four: THE GREAT G.O.D. DEBATE

9. Chance Versus Intelligent Design — Which Is It?

What Is the Great G.O.D. Debate, and How Can It Be Resolved?

10. Can G.O.D. Play Dice with the Universe?

Einstein Was Right: The Answer Is "No"

Interlude: The "Divine Proportion"

Why G.O.D. Is a Mathematician

11. Why Science Shaves with Ockham's Razor

Simple Predictions That Radically Transform Our Minds

Part Five: IMPLICATIONS OF G.O.D. FOR EVERYTHING

12. Who Are We and Why Are We Here?

Your Mind Is Bigger Than the Entire Universe

13. Evidence-Based Faith

A New Way of Marrying Science and Spirit

14. Implications of Intelligent Evolution for Society

Bringing G.O.D. to Science, Education, Medicine, Business, Law, Politics, and Religion

15. The Organizing Mind

New Discoveries Show How the Mind Organizes Matter

16. Wisdom in the Stars

Is the Universe Not Only Intelligent But Wise?

17. The Genius Within Everyone

Why Universal Organizing Consciousness Exists in Everything

18. Summing up the G.O.D. Experiments — The Emerging Case for Intelligent Evolution

Seeing the Big Picture, and Never Forgetting It

Epilogue

Infinite Love: The Ultimate Gift from G.O.D.?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SUGGESTED READINGS

APPENDIX A: A Review and Study Guide for Teachers and the Rest of Us

APPENDIX B: Frequently Asked Questions and Some Critical Answers

APPENDIX C: Extraordinary Synchronicity in New York City

INDEX