| About the Book
Darwin’s work with physical
evidence resulted in the natural selection theory, the driving force in
the evolution of all species. “Intelligent design” advocates argue, with
the support of many scientists, that some form of intelligence must have
deliberately engineered all organic systems. But what underlies natural
selection and intelligent design has not been discussed by their
respective leaders and authors. Modern microbiologists’ starting point and
related assumptions are about the cell or the gene, implying that natural
selection just happened, somewhere along the way with precursors of cells.
The intelligent design group’s belief is in the existence of a superior
being by whom all natural things are directed to their end; in other
words, their main assumption is a starting point with an intelligent
designer.
Author Georges Kassabgi has come up with new ideas – seeds, if you will – and tackles the
perplexing problem recently highlighted as “delusions” and “new atheism”
by bestsellers. The resulting framework of thought is presented in his
book: Seeds for a conversation on the reality of human nature and
behavior.
Many an author
has tried to reconcile our reality with the immeasurable, unknowable. Many
leaders have claimed that they understand the reality underlying human
nature and behavior. All have used reason or science – with or without
religious belief.
Hard stuff and
soft. Kassabgi’s book is a challenge as well as a complement to current
worldviews. It is for the open-minded person interested in expanding the
ongoing philosophic debates.
Hear him out on additional primal interactions at work
alongside the basic laws of physics, elements of matter, and chance; they
are all together the common foundation for what exists in the universe.
Kassabgi is an engineer who has done
research in computer technology (he holds five U.S. patents), and has
studied mathematics. He has worked in many countries as a business
management consultant and coach. In recent years, he has steeped himself
in the history of religions and atheism, in the works of Montaigne,
Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Darwin, Turgenev, Mark
Twain, Alain, Stefan Zweig, Robert Frost, Douglas Hofstadter, Richard
Dawkins, and many more.
Included in the book (in support of the
new framework of thought) are some of his poetry and cartoons – and a
detective story.
Visit the author's website at:
www.seedsforaconversation.com |