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Heavens On Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.

Heavens On Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.

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Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we make all our book club meetings available for viewers and listeners to enjoy. Today's episode features our discussion of the book, "Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia" by Michael Shermer. In this very interesting discussion, 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. The author Michael Shermer joins us for the second half of the presentation. This The Good Book Club Meeting was originally held on August 11th 2024.

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Heavens On Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.

Heavens On Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.