Heavens on earth
the scientific search for the afterlife, immortality, and utopia
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Word Count
76,250 words, Guess
Page Count
305 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101627798579
- ISBN-139781627798570
- Library of Congress Control Number2017033312
- OCLC Control Number1003489368
- Better World Books9781627798570
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26942676M
Classifications
- DDC202/.3
- LCCBL530 .S53 2018
- LCCBL530.S53 2018
Description
"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 by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind-uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth. For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, the place where souls go after the death of the physical body. Religious leaders have toiled to make sense of this place that a surprising 74% of Americans believe exists, but from which no one has ever returned to report what it is really like. Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and what we can do in the here-and-now, whether or not there is a hereafter" --
Other Editions
- Heavens on earth
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