Happily, this thematic narrowness is counterbalanced by a stylistic tendency in the opposite direction — namely, toward the tangential and panoptic.

Likewise, “Believing Is Seeing,” though perceptive about photography, is fundamentally concerned with something very different: epistemology. This is an excerpt of a subchapter from Designing Regenerative Cultures, published by Triarchy Press, 2016. This could easily be a TedTalk and I would have gleaned the same amount of insight from the 14 minute discussion as the 200 page book. If you read this book to to confirm your preconceived beliefs or to ridicule the beliefs of others (no matter what side of the subject matter you are on) then you will miss the point and worth of the book.A survey conducted by BlaBlaCar, a popular ridesharing service, found that 88% of its members reported a high level of trust in fellow users—higher than that reported for colleagues or neighbours. Cons: Throughout the book, the author brings up fringe areas of science that are not yet well understood and are quite mysterious and uses these to imply that science is not particularly reliable, doesn’t really know about the universe, and requires faith. What beliefs underlie my perspective and how have these beliefs influenced what I observed and which data I chose?

Which observable facts and experiences am I basing my reasoning on, and are there other facts to consider? One appeals to the religious, the other to physicists, of which I’m both, so I feel like I can say with some confidence that while he does, on occasion, actually achieve his lofty goal of marrying science and religion in a translogical union, he usually falls flat on his face. It had to become big enough to include belief not only in what I could see and prove but in what I could not see or prove — such as Dark Matter.

I think this book is an excellent tool for young people (say, high-school/ college-age)— Christians and non-Christians alike! He explains that Sontag’s statement that Fenton “staged” the second of the two photographs (the one with the cannonballs on the road) and her presumption to know the sequence of the photographs troubled him.

stars for some interesting ideas, 2 stars for a lack of style and sometimes a lack of substance, and 1 star for transphobia. A lot of the intrigue of the book comes in getting to know and learn about Guillen himself, and his own evolving ideas about science and faith. When you ask these questions in the context of Abu Ghraib, both their stakes and their complexity become immediately apparent. Before his filmmaking career took off, Morris had a day job as a detective, and he urges us, here, to read his essays “as a collection of mystery stories. It is one thing to use Airbnb to rent a spare room from someone of a different background, and quite another to build the deep social bonds needed to support long-run investments.Here, we provide illustrative examples of the insidiously pervasive nature of bias in microscopy experiments - from initial experimental design to image acquisition, analysis and data interpretation. Instead, Morris presents them to the reader as one would present legal direct examination: question and answer. For so long, people have argued that seeing leads to believing, but in using more scientific evidence than I could fully comprehend in an audiobook, Guillen argues that what we believe (our worldview) greatly affects how we see the world. Many atheists, and even the government, do not consider themselves a religion since they completely refuse to acknowledge the belief in any higher power but this guy goes out of his way to say that they are indeed a religious sect.