The Science vs. Religion Debate: New Speaker Bureau Series

Dec. 10, 2015 - PRLog -- The science versus religion debate - atheism vs. fundamentalism, the world of science and evolution vs. creationism - is raging today more than ever.  The lines are drawn, neither side is giving in, and the rhetoric is growing more and more vitrolic.

But there is a third way, a middle ground between these two extremes, and author James Hilgendorf, in a new series of talks, is promoting a view of ourselves and the universe around us that is both compatible with reason and the most cutting-edge findings of science, and, at the same time, promotes a deeply spiritual vision of who we really are, and of our relationship to the unimaginable vastness we see unfolding throughout the cosmos.

James Hilgendorf is a filmmaker, speaker, and the author of ten non-fiction books, one of which is "Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective".

Of the book, one reviewer wrote:

"If I were to teach a basic college-level course in religion, philosophy, or metaphysics - call it Spirituality 101 - this book would be required reading.  In fact, it would be the first week's assignment.  Having read all or parts of nearly a thousand books dealing with spiritual matters, I cannot recall another that so simply and effectively blends the fundamentals of religion and science." - Michael E. Tymn, Journal of Religion and Psychical Research.

Hilgendorf is speaking before both religious and quasi-religious audiences, and to atheist and secular humanist groups.  His latest speaking engagements have been before the Unitarian Universalist groups in Santa Rosa and Berkeley, California, and the Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area.

Hilgendorf has been practicing Buddhism for over forty years with the Soka Gakkai International, the largest Buddhism lay organization in the world now, with 12,000,000 members in 192 countries and territories around the world.  It is in the Buddhism of the Soka Gakkai that he finds a new and emerging worldview that bridges the polarity between religion and science.

More information on James Hilgendorf and his books and talks is available at the author's website at: http://www.jameshilgendorf.org.