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Mapping Reality
A critical Perspective
on Science and Religion
Willie Maartens
Mapping Reality:
A Critical
Perspective on
Science and Religion
By Willie Maartens |
UK
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£16.99
US price:
$27.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 446
ISBN: 0-595-40044-2
Published: Jun-2006
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A critical perspective on
science and religion, and
specifically on faith
(religion and science) and
rational thought (science).
An endeavour to illustrate
(by means of examples) how
inadequate human thought and
senses are, and how humans
never truly can understand
reality.
Book Description
We must clearly distinguish
between reality (the
territory), and what we
perceive to be reality (the
map of the territory)! In
our journey through life, we
need something to guide us,
to give us reassurance that
we are on the right track.
Modern science has done its
best to take that
reassurance away from us,
telling us that there is no
destination, no purpose, in
life, and that in effect our
lives are an accident of
‘Nature’. Religion, too, has
become equally unhelpful: it
has become dogmatic,
sectarian, and self-serving.
We have lost the core, the
real message, of religion,
but we still need true
spirituality. Indeed, we
need a map to the Truth.
“In this amazingly
comprehensive and
thoroughgoing work, Dr
Willie Maartens has produced
a remarkable piece of work
and I applaud his insights.
He has certainly adjusted my
own map of reality, or shall
I say adjusted my
perspective of it! Indeed,
the major contribution to
learning by Dr Maartens’
book is that it tells us not
to confuse our own personal
maps of reality with the
actual world, or reality, in
which we live, move, and
have our being. If anything,
this book takes off one’s
blinkers — or at least makes
one seriously think about
taking them off and
re-adjusting one’s
perspectives.”
Quoted from the foreword to
Mapping Reality by:
Dr. Charles Muller, MA
(Wales), PhD (Lond), DLitt
(OFS), DEd (SA)
About the author
Born in South Africa, Willie
Maartens grew up on the gold
mines of the ‘old’
Transvaal. He qualified as a
Topographical and
Engineering Surveyor as well
as a Business Economist. He
worked as a surveyor,
economist, consultant,
entrepreneur, lecturer, and
freelance researcher. He
retired because of poor
health. He is married and
has a son and a daughter.
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