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i'm with cs about waffly physics books--people often read these non-technical physics books (which have a great gee-whiz factor) and then come up with all sorts of ideas of how that affects or supports their philosophy of life, understanding only the gee-whiz example, and not the general principle behind it. for example, there are plenty of people who read somewhere that 'entropy always increases' and are now convinced that something as orderly as a human being could not possibly have been created without interference from God. but the actual 2nd law of thermodynamics is much more mundane than you'd understand from the three words 'entropy always increases'--it refers to a very specific set of conditions that have to apply. i think that's the danger of some of those non-technical physics books--it makes people feel like they understand something that they don't.
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