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Books which deal with what many regard as big questions in our lives such as: Is there a God? What happens after death? How did we get here? usually are several centimetres thick. The Small Book that Answers the Big Questions is a rarity. It has been kept small intentionally but provides answers which are logical and fully compatible with science. This is essentially the position of an atheist, as might be expected from this author, a 96 year old retired research scientist, but it is not aggressively so. For example it respects the beliefs of the many Christians who simply feel there is a God inside them - guiding them . The Answers include hard evidence now being found by scientists using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to study the human brain while it is functioning (fMRI) and other relevant research. A further theme of the book is the striking contrast between what the churches say on the web and elsewhere are their core beliefs, which often include miracles and anti-science, and the actual beliefs of their congregations, which are more in keeping with modern knowledge. The Small Book condemns those who misuse the trust young children have when searching for truths about their world, by teaching anti-science as truth. The Book gives the recent example when children were scared by being taught that their parents would burn in hell, because they said we did not descend from Adam and Eve, but evolved. The book takes into account my personal experiences, from having listened to hundreds of sermons, homilies, hymns and psalms in my youth. The views of influential writers such as Paul Davies, Barbara Thiering, Richard Dawkins, John Shelby Sprong and others are cited where relevant.

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David Lipscombe Hollway B.E.E, M.Eng.Sc. D.Sc.Eng., was born and educated in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. After graduating in electrical engineering from Melbourne University he stayed on for 2 years doing research which resulted in a sensitive instrument used for measuring the dielectric constants and losses of the new low-loss materials needed for use in the highest frequency bands. For this instrument he coined the word 'dielectrometer' and used the word in the title of his publication describing the work. The word was rapidly adopted overseas and at last count Google cited more than 4000 entries. During WW2 he was occupied in making magnetrons and klystrons (then highly secret) for the Australian radar program. In 1946 he joined the CSIR National Standards Laboratory, later to become the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics, and worked on problems in electron optics and improving the precision of measurements in the high frequency (HF) and microwave (MW) frequency ranges. He continued as leader of a group working on HF and MW standards and measurements until his retirement in 1981. This work has been published in some 28 (mostly refereed) papers in technical journals in the USA and England.

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