Howard Bloom - The God problem: how a godless cosmos creates

The God Problem is the next paradigm. It doesn't take you down the proverbial rabbit holeit will take you to a place from which you will never reemerge, a brand-new universe in the same skin as the one you now unknowingly inhabit.

Heinz Insu Fenkl, director of the
State University of New York's
Interstitial Studies Institute

Bloom's greatest talent is his ability to deliver mind-bending concepts in beautifully accessible prose. The breadth and scope of his knowledge is utterly extraordinary, and The God Problem is enormously engaging. It truly manages to get beyond the usual divisions between science and belief, and it offers an arresting and original take on the question of how a universe designs itself.

Matt Thorne,
Encore Awardwinning novelist

Absolutely sparkling with ideas.

David Christian, founder of the
International Big History Association
and author of Maps of Time

Part scientific history lesson, part meditation on the foundations of cosmic evolution, The God Problem is the work of a rare thinker willing to face directly into one of the great unsung mysteries of science: the stupendous creativity of the universe. At once entertaining, irreverent, and erudite, The God Problem brilliantly dances around the edges of physics, biology, and philosophy, showing us what may be the next staging ground in the advance of truth.

Carter Phipps, author of Evolutionaries

[An] entertaining, suspenseful, rigorous, and thoroughly mathematical survey of the complexity of cosmic (and human) nature.

Martin Bojowald, author of
Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe

The God Problem is what James Joyce's Ulysses might have been like had he written about science. It's an intellectual history no one has put together before. It's like a James Bond martinishaken, not stirred. It rearranges your thoughts and opens the doors of perception. And it's fun. The God Problem is urgent. It's entangled with the Mortality Problem, and the Mortality Problem looms ever larger in the lives of 70 million baby boomers. Many of us have abandoned conventional religion in favor of a deeper inquiry into spirituality. Some of us have looked to the East without finding everything we sought. Some of us have looked to the pagan past with some success. But when you look into the face of modern science in all its glory you'll find many of the pieces we've all been missing. And revealing those missing pieces is what The God Problem is all about. Don't let anyone undersell this.

Steve Hovland, video maker

A work of genius. In one book, more history, science, and philosophy than I have encountered in a lifetime of learning. This book stomps mud tracks across disciplines and slashes with a razor, rendering the death of a thousand cuts to the complacency of status-quo thinking. What some call heresy others will certainly call genius. A paradigm/mind-set/game changer.

Robert Steele, number one
Amazon.com reviewer for nonfiction

An ebullient, enthralling piece of intellectual detective work, bursting with original insight. Bloom brings his kaleidoscopic mind to bear in unraveling the cosmic mysteries of creativity.

Alex Wright, author of
Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages

Bloom takes us on a magic carpet ride of ideas aboutwell, about everything. And it turns out that everything we knew about everything is probably wrong. Howard Bloom is the absolute master polymath, and his book is an intellectual cave of wonders made more wonderful by the tales of the lives of the people behind the ideas. Don't start this book late at night, for it will banish sleep.

Robin Fox, author of The Tribal Imagination
and former director of research for the
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

A gleeful intellectual romp through the farthest reaches of science and philosophy in search of the answer to the ultimate question. And in the end we find that it's bagels all the way down.

Nova Spivack, serial entrepreneur
and CEO of Bottlenose

Is The God Problem a great booklike Darwin's The Origin of Species, Lyell's Principles of Geology, or Newton's Principia Mathematica?[R]are is the book that ever evokes such thoughts as these. Books and ideas that matter have to open up ideas. The God Problem is a book that makes connections [and] makes its readers make connections. It is also Bloom's best book yet, a sweeping narrative of divergent ideas brought under one umbrella through a Keatsian demiurge.

Dan Schneider, founder of Cosmoetica.com

It's a blast of clean energy! Exalted! Glorious! Astounding.

Nancy Weber, author of The Life Swap

The God Problem is thrilling. The way Bloom tells the story, you can't stop reading until the end.

Hector Zenil, Institut d'Histoire et de
Philosophie des Sciences et des Technique

The God Problem is a sacred secular masterpiece. Divine. An act of astonishing genius. Bloom has created the ultimate scientific detective story. I pray with all the neutrinos in my soul that it will become the adjunct Bible of the future.

Mark Lamonica, winner of the
Southern California Booksellers Association
nonfiction award

A crowning achievement by one of the deepest thinkers of our time. A page-turner, something you almost never see in a subject this profound.

Walter Putnam, dean of communications at
the Kepler Space Institute

An incandescent exploration of the most intractable scientific enigmas, with the most cogent and surprising critique of the second law of thermodynamics since the invention of the steam engine. It shakes out like shining from shook foil and oozes to a greatness.

George Gilder, author of
The Israel Test and Wealth and Poverty and
winner of the White House Award
for Entrepreneurial Excellence

A must-read for those wanting great literature delving into the greatest mysteries.

Edgar Mitchell, sixth astronaut on the moon

Terrific. I am stupefied by the amount of work Bloom has put in. Bloom is an authentic genius.

Jean Paul Baquiast,
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

The God Problem will change your life.

David Swindle, associate editor, PJ Media

I can't stop reading The God Problemit's infectious.

Mark Lupisella,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

An enjoyment shot through with things you never knew.

Allen Johnson, author of
The Evolution of Human Societies

A profound and extraordinary look into the history of human thought.

Yuri Ozhigov, chair of quantum informatics,
Moscow State University

Boy, what a book! I haven't gotten this much pleasure from science since James Gleick's Chaos in 1988. Bloom's The God Problem is the most thrilling thinking matter of our time.

Pascal Jouxtel, author of
Comment les systmes pondent,
une introduction la mmtique

Great book, a huge scope, a delicious intellectual buffet, a fantastic effort to corral a conundrum. The range of scholarship is extraordinary and the unfolding of the story is magnificent.

Sean O'Reilly, editor at large,
Traveler's Tales

Howard Bloom has never shied away from tackling BIG issues. Within The God Problem he takes on the biggest yet and does so with an eminently engaging style that makes the central illuminations glow.

Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence

My face was hurting from smiling, contemplating, reading until my eyes hurt. Bloom has managed to make my heart swell with pride and my head hurt in amazement that no one before him has strung together these theories, observations, mistakes, and explanations of, well, ALL THINGS science in such an entertaining way! Great read!