Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker

By Phillip Manning
Science Book News
June 24, 2011
http://www.scibooks.org/pgs/whatsnew.htm

Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Yale, $25, 192 pages. Publication date June 28.

Swimme is professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies; Tucker is a senior lecturer at Yale and the author of Worldly Wonder. “Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be.”

PBS film "Journey of the Universe" has deep roots in Oakland

By Pat McHenry Sullivan
Oakland Local
June 11, 2011
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2011/06/pbs-film-journey-universe-has-deep-roots-oakland

“What is the creativity that brought forth a hundred billion, maybe a trillion galaxies?" asks mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme, Ph.D. in the trailer to his stunning new film, "Journey of the Universe." Throughout the film he'll be asking, how can that creativity inspire your own creativity and engagement in an ever-changing world?

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A Christian journey into our universe

By Luc Rinaldi
The B.C. Catholic Register
http://bcc.rcav.org/canadian/812-luc-rinaldi

Documentary asks people to avoid "pre-Copernican" mindset

TORONTO (CCN)--Science and religion were never at war for the creators of Journey of the Universe, a film that will hit its first Canadian audience June 15.

The documentary film, co-written by religious historian Mary Evelyn Tucker and evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme, is rooted in the work and ideas of cosmologist and passionist Father Thomas Berry. It tells the story of the universe over 14 billion years, Tucker explains, integrating “the best discoveries of modern science with human history, art, philosophy and religion.”

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