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

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But I have to commend the author for making precise principles easy to understand through simple explanations. A belief in God does not produce any conflicts for me personally, but for those who have a science based worldview and who perhaps discount the notion of incorporating God or a spiritually based belief into their lives, I would recommend this as a thought provoking read. Dr Guillen (G) tries to drive this basic point home by using various examples from science and religion: All truth does not need 'proof' to warrant its truthfulness. Yet by their nature, such workarounds are limited in scope, and leave many members of society isolated.

As it happens, she never claimed that Fenton “moved the cannonballs to telegraph the horrors of war. Indeed, they are the very questions that motivate contemporary discourse on photography; they are the questions that have forced photographic practice and theory to think and to create.My dad chose this book to read aloud with me during some hard times, so I'll always have good memories associated with it. I was reminded that Atheism is a worldview in itself that takes leaps of faith- how can we know for certain there is no God?

This is an excerpt of a subchapter from Designing Regenerative Cultures, published by Triarchy Press, 2016. But a true understanding of Jesus requires revelation because it engages our whole person, not just our mind. Such a line of inquiry would have forced him to begin in the middle, in the midst of images, and assert then that, “Truth in photography is an elusive notion,” rather than end up there (194).

Likewise, “Believing Is Seeing,” though perceptive about photography, is fundamentally concerned with something very different: epistemology. The authors I have mentioned all share terrain with Morris by addressing questions about photography’s decontextualization, its relation to space and time, modes of address, structures of intention, aesthetic and epistemological effects, and so on. Instead, Morris presents them to the reader as one would present legal direct examination: question and answer. First developed by Harvard Professor Chris Argyris, the model highlights our tendency to confuse our assessment of a given situation with the supposed ‘facts’ of the situation.

People can arrive at the first stage of spiritual perception through reason, evidence or experience. Personally, I’m not an atheist, and I’m pursuing science, so I don't exactly need evidence for faith and religion and science co-existing. Morris smartly begins the book with an anecdote that in many ways sets the tone for his project: his friend asks him, “you mean to tell me that you went all the way to the Crimea because of one sentence written by Susan Sontag?The author also describes evidence of God on a more personal note, circumstances and strong feelings in his life. Definitely recommending this to peers who struggle or question our post truth society, and the interconnectedness of science and faith. I have immense faith in them, and with good reason- the laws of thermodynamics have solid evidence backing them up. With the risk of sounding nit-picky, I don't think faith and religion are interchangeable words, and although I didn't necessarily get the impression that the author thinks that I would have appreciated less ambiguity with the use of these two.