Can This Guy Really Explain Right-Handed Isomers With A Touch Of Humor?

Scientists and philosophers speak of a concept that is called a “theory of everything”.  A theory of everything—it is supposed—would provide a logically consistent explanation of the various forces of nature, including perplexing questions like, “where did it all come from?”  And, “how does it all really work?”  Our current scientific understanding of reality is incomplete…how’s that for an understatement?  A theory of everything would comprehensively and consistently help complete this lack of understanding and, of course, a theory of everything would help explain a lot of the questions that we have about that most mysterious of species known as “man”.

Have you ever wondered, “Why did I do that same dumb thing…again!?!”  A theory of everything would quite possibly help to explain that.  But it probably won’t help you find your car keys.  You’re still on your own, there.

That is the ambitious issue Edgar Andrews deals with in this book, “Who Made God?”  In fact, the subtitle is: Searching For A Theory Of Everything.

Andrews addresses a range of subjects including cosmology, physics, philosophy, time, Darwinian evolution, the nature of science, mind studies, and morality.  What is helpful is that he is able to do so in a way that is understandable to a simple layman like myself.  And, he does so with a touch of humor and wit.  Believe me, it’s impressive when a guy can explain how left-handed and right-handed isomers apply to amino acids with a touch of humor.  (Maybe they ought to hire him to “punch up” Jimmy Fallon’s monologues …..Just a thought.)

Andrews maintains that, ultimately, it is the hypothesis of God that really offers the greatest explanatory power to the big questions of life and existence.  Says Andrews, “A true ‘theory of everything’, therefore, must embrace both the material and non-material aspects of the universe, and my contention is that we already possess such a theory, namely, the hypothesis of God.” “The hypothesis of God”, according to Andrews is our best, most complete, most satisfactory theory of everything.