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    Über das Sein: Ein Naturwissenschaftler erforscht die großen Fragen der Existenz
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    Über das Sein: Ein Naturwissenschaftler erforscht die großen Fragen der Existenz

    By Peter Atkins

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    Woher kommen wir? Wohin gehen wir? Was sagt die Naturwissenschaft zu diesen Fragen und wie kann sie uns helfen, Antworten zu finden? Peter Atkins, Professor für Chemie an der Universität Oxford, Autor erfolgreicher Lehrbücher und Verfasser zahlreicher populärwissenschaftlicher Werke, untersucht in seinem Buch mit Witz und Verstand die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Wissenschaft. Schon der erste Satz zeigt seine originelle, gänzlich ehrfurchtslose Herangehensweise: "Die wissenschaftliche Methode ist in der Lage, jede nur mögliche Idee zu erhellen, selbst jene, die die Menschheit seit dem frühesten Aufleuchten des Bewusstseins geplagt haben und die das auch heute noch tun." In fünf Kapiteln untersucht er aus diesem Blickwinkel die Grundfragen des Lebens und Seins, vom 'Anfang' über 'Entwicklung', 'Geburt' und 'Tod' bis zum 'Ende'.
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherReclam Verlag
    Release dateAug 13, 2013
    ISBN9783159602226
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    • 3/5
      A short book about life and how it came to be and how it ends. Deals with cellular beginnings, and cellular death. The book compares scientific knowledge with religious belief, and religion doesn't come off particularly positive, but the book doesn't really make any hard punches, either. It's sort of laid back, which might be suited for an author at or near the end of his career. Pretty lightweight, but an easy read. The author manages to take a gratuitous slug at women in the very beginning; that put the book into a bit of a sour note for me, since it was totally unnecessary. Without that, I might have let the later comment about nubile young (not old) maids pass, but in the long run, it left a bad taste.
    • 1/5
      A great disappointment. I had hoped it would be as thoughtful and interesting as Atkins' writing in other books, but he just seems to be in a bad mood, and want to put you in one, too.
    • 3/5
      A short book about life and how it came to be and how it ends. Deals with cellular beginnings, and cellular death. The book compares scientific knowledge with religious belief, and religion doesn't come off particularly positive, but the book doesn't really make any hard punches, either. It's sort of laid back, which might be suited for an author at or near the end of his career. Pretty lightweight, but an easy read. The author manages to take a gratuitous slug at women in the very beginning; that put the book into a bit of a sour note for me, since it was totally unnecessary. Without that, I might have let the later comment about nubile young (not old) maids pass, but in the long run, it left a bad taste.
    • 2/5
      Do you ever find your views being shaped by the unreasonableness of the argument being presented to you? I mean, someone arguing that all religious views are childish giving one a desire to consider creationism, or an overzealous liberal leading to a momentary questioning of the equality of coloured people, or women? If you answered, "Yes", you are beginning to know the effect that this book had upon me. Mr. Atkins presents his views as the hight of reasonableness and is careful not to insult other views. No, he does not insult, he patronises: science has theories, religion has myths. If I understand his views, he believes that a guiding hand to the creation of the universe is disproved by the scientific theory that everything tends to 'purposeless decay'. Everything, that is, except for the human mind (why is that different, apart from the fact that to argue such would mean that Mr Atkins mind and its products would also be purposeless). A lack of purpose indicates to me a random state. If the universe were random, then science could not exist. Science depends upon a rational cause and effect system.Mr. Atkins finally gives the game away in the final paragraph of this work, the opening words of which are, "My own faith, my scientific faith....". Voltaire famously said that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. This is what much of science has done over recent years; it decries religion but insists upon the sacrosanct nature of its theories (not proven facts) - even when they contradict each other. I stand to be corrected, but I believe that gravity makes it impossible for the laws of quantum physics to work. Both are lynch pins to our current scientific knowledge so, we sweep this unfortunate fact under the table.You see, I knew what this book would achieve, I sound like some fundamentalist religious nutcase, threatening death to anyone who questions a word of my chosen Holy book: not a bit, I am a Christian, but I believe that evolution has some truth in it. I accept, without question, that the earth revolves around the sun, etc., etc.... Science (like religion) should get its own house in order. When Mr Atkins can prove that the world was created in a fashion that precludes God, then he may ridicule my views until then, he should take a scientific approach and not pre-judge the outcome.
    • 3/5
      This is a very short read, and depending on your position, it is either preaching to the choir, or trying to persuade people who will not be persuaded by the arguments anyway. In my case, the book falls into the first category, and that's not a bad thing at all, but I think the author has a pretty one-dimensional and naive view of religion, as in "pure belief in some mythologies and nothing else", not taking into account the fact that the mess we're in is much more complex.Apart from the book's naïveté in that regard, it provides a basic scientific tour of what we know about the origins and development of universe and life. There's also ample speculation (with a lovely and unexpected reference to John Updike), but it doesn't take away anything from the general flow of the book. It is nice to see the author's admiration at chemical and biological processes, based on his scientific expertise. It is in those sections where he provides us with a glimpse into the miraculous mechanisms underlying even a single cell, showing how much modern science has achieved in demystifying the mysteries of life.I can't say this is a bad book, but if you've had a basic science education in physics, cosmology and biology, or at least followed the popular expositions of the modern developments in those fields, there isn't much to be gleaned from this very short treatise. If, on the other hand, you're looking to learn about them, then again, this book is really short and doesn't do much justice to those topics, so you'll need to look elsewhere.