Finding God In The Waves

Growing up, Mike McHargue was a walking contradiction: a card-carrying, evangelical Sunday school teacher and a self-proclaimed science nerd who worshipped Carl Sagan and taught himself to program computers in the fourth grade. But at age 25, Mike was thrown into a crisis of faith when his parents announced that they were getting a divorce. Devastated by the news, Mike read through the Bible three times over the course of a year, looking for answers, but the Bible didn't help. Too afraid to leave the social network of his church, Mike became a closeted atheist--or as he puts it, "The least interesting double agent in the world." But, years later, Mike was standing on the shores of the Pacific when a surprising, mystical moment motivated him to take another look. This time, it wasn't faith or scripture that led him to God, but science. In this lucid, winsome, credible, and hugely appealing book, "Science" Mike draws on his personal story as through line to present fascinating explanations of the discoveries that led him back to faith. Among other revelations, we learn how the latest in neuroscience research can change our understanding of what happens when we pray; how fundamentalism affects the brain; and how God reveals himself not only in scripture, but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us. Full of mind-blowing insights about the universe, as well as deeply personal reflections on our desire for certainty and meaning, Finding God in the Waves is a vital exploration of the possibility for knowing God in an age of reason.