201 Billion Galaxies

This is a book of true stories and insights that address religious beliefswhere they come from and where they might be going. It confrontsthe diffi culties between age-old human faiths and modern scientificdiscoveries, discussing the impacts and discontinuities that result.Violence, permission, sex, the afterlife are all here, but not in the usualway.Who will actually be on the Starship Enterprise? How many sentientbeings are there in the universe? What is a soul, actually? What doesholy really mean? These are a few of the issues that are dealt withthrough the stories. Of course a very big question, as indicated by thetitle of the book, is exactly where do we and our religions fit in a universeof a billion trillion stars and an unimaginable number of life-sustainingplanets?