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Robert Wright interviews
Owen Gingerich
on purpose in the universe

Owen Gingerich on other topics:

Evolution of religion

Faith and reason

Limits of science

Other dimensions

Pantheism

Religion in a global age

The anthropic principle

What is God?

Complete interview

Written transcript of complete interview


Owen Gingerich is a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University.


Top Books by Owen Gingerich:

Ptolemy's Almagest

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing The Revolutions Of Nicolaus Copernicus

The Eye Of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler

The Great Copernicus Chase And Other Adventures In Astronomical History


Books by Robert Wright:

The Evolution of GodNonzeroThe Moral Animal

Written transcript of complete interview


Other speakers on purpose in the universe:


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Can anyone meditate?

Cosmic evolution

Fundamentalism

Intelligent Design

Is religious experience "real"?

Islam and the west

Living in the moment

Other dimensions

Purpose in the universe

Religion as pathology

Sufism

The biology of religion

The perennial philosophy

The problem of pleasure

What good is religion?

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