Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author...
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Author: Michael Shermer
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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia by Shermer, Michael

Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

CHF 31.17

Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

CHF 31.17
Author: Michael Shermer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer

In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth.

For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, and though no one has ever returned from such a place to report what it is really like--or that it even exists--today science and technology are being used to try to make it happen in our lifetime. From radical life extension to cryonic suspension to mind uploading, Shermer considers how realistic these attempts are from a proper skeptical perspective.

Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and how we can live well in the here-and-now, whether or not there is a hereafter.

Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 01/08/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781250314130

About the Author
Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, and many other bestselling titles.

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