Beyond Natural

By John McCormick

There are books which, no matter the title any particular one has, the title will never adequately describe or declare its value. This is one such. A treat for a lay reader; it surveys what science and materialist philosophy tells of the natural world, then asks whether there exists reasonable, acceptable evidence of a beyond-natural world.
A beyond-natural world is not a magic, occult, mystic, phantom, spectral, eldritch world; a world of demons and dragons. A beyond-natural world is a world undisturbed by the physical laws of the universe; a world with phenomena unaccountable to physical laws.
After examining concepts of what ‘evidence’ - not 'proof' - consists of, the book primarily examines what physics and biology reveal of the universe and life.
In a light free-flowing style it gives an account of theories as to the beginning of the universe and its projected end; the many predicted observations relating to the Big Bang; and the strength of existing evidence for multiverse theory, and other theories involving eternity and holographs.
In similar fashion, it treats of the first appearance of life on earth, and the astonishing revelations of atomic microscopy; of the controlled, organised and coordinated non-random collection of specifically functional, versatile nanomachinery in the cell carrying out complex physico-chemical and metabolic processes. Living cells are packed with multipurpose complex nanomachines; nanomachinery, which is found in all life, and was in place at the beginning.
At least since humankind began communicating in writing, it has never stopped postulating, denying, or simply wondering if there is a beyond-natural world, or, at least, evidence of such. It is still a live issue in science and philosophy

• Language: English
• Publisher: John McCormick
• Release date: Dec 1, 2019

John McCormick

John McCormick grew up in Napa and is descended from five generations of Napa Valley residents. He received his bachelor's in engineering from the University of California-Berkeley and his master's in history from Harvard University. After a career in technology in Silicon Valley, he and his wife now own a small business in Lafayette, California.