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America today is faced with a great number of concerns. One of the larger ones is the role of religious thought and practices in our everyday lives. Issues such as abortion, Intelligent Design, and the moral and ethical impact of technology on its citizens weigh heavily on almost all of us. These issues predominate both the front pages and the op-ed pages of our newspapers. They fill the news media on both television and the net. They created heated arguments in almost every community in our world, often leading to open conflicts between friends and even family members. Religion and faith are in conflict within the hearts and minds of educated people exposed to more and more information. Science has marched directly into realms covered by faith, leading to great angst within people who try and balance their Church mind with the secular world. Nowhere is this conflict more apparent than in the issues generated in the reconciliation of theology and modern science. As cosmology crossed over into the sacred ground of the Creation with the discovery of the Big Bang, scientists themselves discovered that they had come face to face with the questions around the existence of God, the Creator, and his role in Creation. While most of the general population believes that scientists are atheists, and that the basic tenets of theology and science are antithetical, the opposite is actually closer to the truth. There is a ground where science and theology can, and must, share thoughts. Scientists like Einstein and Hawking speak of trying to understand the mind of God and make bold conjectures as to whether or not God had any choices in his design of the Universe. This book attempt to build a bridge from Science to Faith and back, and opens the mind of the Child. the Mind of Man and relates them both to the Mind of God

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Michael Simon Bodner is a child of parents that survived the Holocaust. Raised in the Jewish tradition in Brooklyn, New York, he decided very early in his life to become a theoretical physicist. Educated in the New York Public Schools, including the famed Stuyvesant High School, he went on to receive his undergraduate training at Brooklyn College. After graduation, he went directly into the NASA Lunar Program, and when that bold adventure ended he went back to graduate school to receive his Ph.D. at St. John's University in New York. He went on to become a physics professor in the SUNY system, and in the late seventies he became, by his own admission, a mercenary, by abandoning academia and joining the newly developing microcomputer industry. Over the next two decades, Dr. Bodner brought high technology solutions to a myriad of real world problems, from airline reservation systems to tracking oil inventories on tankers in transit. He wrote and deployed medical practice software systems and developed software that tracked cornea transplant information for many of the top eye transplant organizations in the US. As an early advocate of using the Internet as an application platform, he designed and delivered systems for banking, funeral home online obituaries and small business/home office associations. In his personal life, he married his wife, Stacey, in 1989 and was baptized, along with his two-year-old son and newborn daughter in 1993. The conversion of a child of Jewish Holocaust survivors to Christianity was a part of a life-long thought journey, in which the questions of the child and the scientist merged and found comfort in a religious group that cherished the Jewish roots of Jesus Christ, as well as appreciated the intellectual probing of a mind such as his. It was the respect of the Jewish traditions that formed the underpinnings of Christianity, as well as the openness of its position as to intellectual questioning, that led Dr. Bodner to Presbyterianism. As a member of a prominent Presbyterian church in a suburb of Houston, Texas, he began a series of lectures sharing his thoughts on the relationship between modern science and theology. The series, repeated to ever-increasing audiences in subsequent years, has formed the basis of this book. Dr. Bodner resides with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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