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is crucial that we acquire some understanding of just who we are as a
species, why we exist and how best we may order our lives and societies
within the universal scheme of things."
- Eugene D. A. Bell-Gam
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About the Author
Eugene Donald Bell-Gam was born in Paddington, London, England in 1955. He spent
most of his childhood in Sierra Leone; a tropical environment of great
beauty and diversity that nurtured an early interest in nature, science
and philosophy.
He planned to study Biochemistry, but a chance holiday job at Barclays
Bank led him into banking studies, qualification as an Associate of the
Chartered Institute of Bankers at the age of 24, and the development of
investigative and data analysis skills as a senior bank inspector. He
left banking at the end of 1985 and spent three years at the General
Medical Council where became familiar with controversies in medical
science and ethics. He also read law at Birbeck College, University of
London.
Brought up as an Anglican Christian he remained an active member of the
Church of England for several decades despite early sceptism about
literal interpretation of scripture and religion's obsession with
man-invented dogma. In the 1980s he
served for many years on the Parish Church Council of St. James,
Alperton and joined The Gideons. Eventually he quit Anglicanism
altogether in favour of simple, personal beliefs in a common humanity
informed by nature and science.
An avid follower of leading-edge scientific research, he supports the
use of acquired knowledge to improve on nature. At the same time he
shares general public disquiet about unpredictable consequences for our
being and the environment that could result from relentless,
indiscriminate intervention of science in natural processes.
These twin concerns about religion and science led him to undertake two
years of research into philosophy of science issues that has culminated
in the publication of Why We Exist; a succinct examination of life's
origin, meaning and purpose in the light of available
scientific evidence.
The book's message is that the huge complexities of living things and
the natural environment demands that we arrive at some understanding of
purpose as a guide to handling both physical and non-physical aspects
of life.
Bell-Gam is married and currently lives with his family in Sudbury,
Middlesex, U.K.
He can be reached at:
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The Book
Pen Press, London
ISBN: 1-904018-86-6
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BOOK CONTENTS
Preface
1. INTRODUCTION
Timeless Questions,
Shifting Answers
Crisis and Contradiction
Conflicting Indoctrination
Importance of the Debate
2. RELIGION ON ORIGIN
What is Religion?
Early Accounts of Origin
Creation Science
Common Ground with Science
3. SCIENCE ON ORIGIN
PART 1: THE UNIVERSE
What do we mean by Science?
Astronomy
Cosmology
Big-Bang Theory
Problems with Big-Bang
More Missing Pieces
Where is it all heading?
Common Ground with Religion
4. SCIENCE ON ORIGIN
PART 2: LIFE
Evolution
Darwinism
Impact of Modern Genetics
Problems with Evolution
Evolution, Religion & Social Science
What Next?
5. FOCUSING ON PURPOSE
Why restrict Inquiry?
Is it all a futile exercise?
Modern Design Science
Wrong Assumptions
6. THE SOLAR LABORATORY THEORY
An Expendable Experiment
Recording Mechanisms - Memory
Timing Mechanisms
Sleep
Dreaming
Memory Consolidation and Storage
Memory Retrieval
Consciousness and The Mind-Brain
Death
Quantum Unreality
Influencing Mechanisms
7. IMPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY
The Role of Free Will
The Good-Evil Paradox
Morality and Religion
The Problem with Religion
Morality outside Religion
Chances of Intervention
False Security
8. DEVELOPMENTS
9. FURTHER READING
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