Abstract
Ebert’s premise for Twilight of the Clockwork God: Conversations on Science and Spirituality at the End of an Age revolves around establishing that our predictable world, a world where science and laws dictate the outcome, is quickly becoming obsolete. This clockwork god is the deity who, in Isaac Newton’s universe, set the great celestial clock in motion and then walked away to let natural law take over daily regulation of the spheres. "The transformation of scientific theories into mythic analogs will create a more affective language for science … what religion can borrow from science, on the other hand, is new knowledge about the universe that, in turn, can transform through the mythic imagination."