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Alan Lightman: Can Science Explain Spirituality?

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Alan Lightman is a physicist who's firmly rooted in the belief that all things in the universe can be explained in terms of matter. Experiences like his encounter with an adolescent offspring have led him to write a book called The Transcendent's Brain, Spirituality in the Age of Science. "I lost all track of my body and lost track of myself and just felt like I was merging with something much larger than myself," he says.

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