Atheist Searches For God - Aspect Of The Universe?

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This long article started out quite fascinating, although at the end, I felt it degenerated into a book plug.  The author, Nancy Ellen Abrams, wife of cosomologist Joel Primack, with her husband has written on cosmology, esp. dark matter and dark energy.  She always rejected religion.  But an eating disorder led her to seek a higher power, and only when she believed in some sort of undefined higher power could she make any headway against the disorder.

 

Now Abrams tries to recast the question, Is There a God, into the form, What in the Universe is Worthy of Being Called God?  She doesn't say her answer in this article, though she finds all current religions largely irrelevant to what humanity now faces.  I guess you have to buy the book? 

 

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/07/my_atheist_search_for_god_were_debating_science_and_religion_all_wrong/

 

Has anyone come across Abrams' work or that of her husband, Primack, or have any views on how a universe in which most of its contents are impervious to light can supply something worthy of being called God?

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This long article started out quite fascinating...........................................The author, Nancy Ellen Abrams, wife of cosomologist Joel Primack, with her husband has written on cosmology, esp. dark matter and dark energy.  ...................................................................................................................................................

Has anyone come across Abrams' work or that of her husband, Primack, or have any views on how a universe in which most of its contents are impervious to light can supply something worthy of being called God?

 

I think her views are related to her quote in the article:

 

“For me a God that is real has to be real not in our commonsense world but in the double dark universe, where we now know we live.”

 

The clue, I think,  comes from the part of her quote where she referred to "the double dark universe, where we now know we live" referring to dark matter and dark energy. Both she and her husband did work where she, and her husband, previously wrote on both dark matter and dark energy, and the contradictions of theory that both could involve.  I think her ideas and questions have similarity to ES's thread about Dark matter and Dark energy, and how god might be involved, in his opinion. Again I think it relates to the god of the gaps, in that what we may not  understand very well in science can open the door for religion, astrology, or superstition for some people, concerning their search and hope for better explanations.