Reviews of The Wonder of the World

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. . .I intend to reread The Wonder of the World at leisure. I was hugely impressed and substantially challenged by it [ expanded commentary by Antony Flew ]
—Antony Flew
The world’s best-known atheist and a critic of theism for more than 50 years