Something There Is : Seeking a Rational Faith for Our Children

This is a personal but universal search for a rational faith in challenging times. The profoundly hopeful search is related in a distinctive poetic prose, in a series of autobiographical letters from places of great human striving - from prisons and board rooms, back wards and cathedrals, hospitals and laboratories, the Zuni Reservation and MIT, the South Bronx and the Pentagon. Punctuated with quotations from twenty well-known scientists, philosophers, and artists, the book is both technically authentic and aesthetically rewarding. This mirrors its principal thesis - the resolution of science with religion and rationality with beauty. The author is an engineer and successful entrepreneur who has led advances in the technologies of communication and energy services for thirty years. He finds in the universal principles of information and energy transfer – of order and entropy - the universal principles of intelligent life. These he presents in letters from the highest and lowest of mankind’s structures, the best and worst of civilization’s work, experienced personally and through those encountered there. The book develops a logical base for our experience of love and beauty, of time and order, of faith and truth. It derives a rational foundation for moral behavior. And it evolves a rational concept of God that is enhanced by our technological advances, not threatened by them – showing this to be consistent with evolving scientific and philosophical thought.Sayre, David is the author of 'Something There Is : Seeking a Rational Faith for Our Children', published 2001 under ISBN 9780971077607 and ISBN 0971077606.