Reviewers

“Varghese explores the basic and critical questions we face concerning
this remarkable and wonderful universe. Why are we here? Where are we going?
This is no doctrinaire treatise, but a sensitive, profound and clear discussion
of the important issues of our universe and our existence, including questions,
answers, and uncertainties. It is written with a deep understanding of philosophy,
spirituality, and the complex science involved, yet expressed in a way which
is interesting and very understandable to the non-specialist.”


—Charles H. Townes

Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the laser

“Though I found myself arguing with both protagonists, the issues
raised and Guru’s lucid outline of modern science’s framework of understanding,
helped me to challenge and refi ne my own answers to the ultimate questions
that each one of us must ask.”

—Arno Penzias

Nobel Prize winner; discovered Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

establishing the Big Bang theory

“You have in your book deployed abundant evidence indicating that
it is likely to be a very long time before such naturalistic [atheistic] explanations
[for the origin of life and reproduction] are developed, if indeed there ever
could be.”

—Antony Flew

the world’s best-known atheist and a critic of theism for more than 50
years

“Congratulations on a fascinating book! I found The Wonder of the
World to be a highly illuminating and thought-provoking discussion of all the
important issues on the borderline between science and religion.”

—Robert Jastrow

founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Director of the Mount
Wilson

Observatory and author of God and the Astronomers

“ The Wonder of the World is an epoch-making and breathtaking treatise.
Among Indian thinkers Varghese is much inspired by the great theistic philosopher
Sri Madhvacharya. I have learnt a great deal from this giant work.”

—BNK Sharma

leading authority on the great Indian thinker Madhvacharya

and author of 23 books on Eastern thought

“Varghese. . . skillfully leads us through a scientific and philosophical
description of our magnificent universe. Experiencing the wonder of our world
is the surest path to realizing that a purely materialist answer to that question
is both scientifically and philosophically inadequate.”

—Gerald Schroeder

Israeli scientist and author of The Hidden Face of God:

How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth