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Blasphemy
by Douglas Preston
from Forge Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• What garbage!
  Love the Pendergast novels, but this one isn't worth the trouble. It will offend everyone and it's laborious to get through.

• The words of Isabella is the best part.
  Ok, I started this book because LHC is about to go online and I'm a Relics fan. Unfortunately this book is not as good as I have hoped. The story is slow (it did pick up pace near the end, but not a lot), and the storyline of the televangelist/pastor is rather boring. The lead scientist's resume is way over the top and sounds like a character from a bad science fiction novel. 10(?) people running a 40 billion dollar project occupying a mountain is not believable, and we didn't get any interesting details of... more info

• Hard to Put Down for Anyone Interested in Religion and Science
  Over-the-top, maybe but painfully true. This book strikes a responsive chord for anyone not trying to deny the history of fundamentalist Christianity. I ended up suspending everything until I finished this book.
  In addition to being a great mystery and a great read, this book gives you a lot to think about.
  Highly recommended, especially today.

• Religion vs Science
  This is a decent book with some unsettling thoughts about life, humans and the relationship of science and religion. As I read the book it dawned on me that this could be a fictionalized account supporting a version of Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred. Dr Kauffman, an researcher of emergent properties, attempts to bring together the separate belief systems of science and revealed religion in general in his book, although he is partial to the science side throughout.
  The imagines in Preston's... more info

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