Curious Minds

Nancy Abrams

Deepak Chopra and Nancy Abrams discuss the topics of her book, “A God That Could Be Real,” where Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science—but that this doesn’t preclude a God that can comfort and empower us. God, she argues, is an “emergent phenomenon” that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity’s collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual.

34:00 | 2020

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