The Science of God, the God of Science

Philosophy, Aristotle observed, begins in wonder. Too often today, however, philosophy begins in arid formulas that look more like math equations than like curiosity about the great questions of life—“Does God exist?” or “Is there an ultimate purpose to human existence?” or “What do science and religion tell us about ourselves, and do they conflict?” A new book, The Call of Wonder: How the God of Reason Created Science in His Image, invites readers back into that sense of wonder by exploring how faith, science and reason interrelate. The author, biomedical engineer and theologian Brian Cranley, argues that both science and faith are grounded in reason—reason that is itself rooted in God—and therefore that the two disciplines are not fundamentally in conflict but in unity.