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Heavens on Earth : the Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia by Michael Shermer is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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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. ** Review "This book's theme is the one of greatest practical importance to all of us: does some heaven or afterlife await us after we die? Most Americans, and even many atheists, believe that the answer is 'yes.' I

Who reads Heavens on Earth : the Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia?

Author

Michael Shermer

Publisher

publisher not identified

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781627798563

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Science

Rating

4.4 / 5 (211 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14