The Bible According to Einstein: A Scientific Complement to the Holy Bible for the Third Millennium

by Jupiter Books

The Bible According to Einstein is a scientifically based work about the Universe, Earth and Life in the form of the bible that often uses narrative, almost poetic language. Its "Old Testament" tells the complete story of the world from the initial moments of creation to the emergence of Homo Sapiens. Its "New Testament" provides the laws of Nature and humanity's intellectual, spiritual and scientific development.



The Bible According to Einstein reveals the extraordinary workmanship of the Universe and ends with predictions for the future and a message, "the last commandment," for the reader.

Genres: Spirituality, Science, Religion

634 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book has little to do with Einstein and is more a big-picture overview of classical and modern physics, as well as a history of the universe. Additionally, the last third of the book primarily focuses on the geology and biology of the historical world. Generally, the book avoids mathematical formulas, opting instead for high-level explanations. The style of the writing is meant to be similar to the bible, which is more of an annoying distraction than anything else. Also, it freely mixes in speculation with facts, so it's hard to say what the purpose of the book is.

[Jared]

I'm lost somewhere in this book. It's been very cool to check out, but it's really a dabbler kind of book. It's a really cool concept though: take everything thing we knew in modern science (up to 2000) and present it in Biblical form. I would love to finish this someday and to see an updated version on what we've learned in the last few years. This is one fo those books that makes me think the world is a wonderful and exciting place with so much to learn.

Here's a taste of how they do it.

Genesis I: The Planck Epoch
"In the'Beginning,' there was no beginning. Before the Planck time, there was no time and there was no space. The Universe was in a quantum state with wild fluctuations. (The hummingbird's wings flap fast and are invisible.) What one might have called spacetime was incomprehesible. The quantum Universe was a trillion-trillion worlds. Potential worlds were bubbling forth and were evaporating like unto the waters in a boiling pot. And tunnelling and fluctuations moved thy proto-World among these worlds. And quantum gravity wreaked havoc. The waves of gravity were everywhere. The Universe was like a thousand knots.
Near the 'Beginning,' there was almost nothing. The Universe was unimaginable hot and small. And somehow from this senseless void would emerge thy World. And somehow from this emptiness there would emerge a time and space. Thy Universe would soon conveive itself. And from the almost nothingness would soon come all."

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is, by a great margin, the most wonderful book that I have in my library!