Kodansha, New York, 1994, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 1-56836-045-2.  Trade soft cover, 255 pages including Index.  Wraps show light edge and cover wear, faint reading crease along front hinge; small spots on bottom page block; small ink smear on verso of rear wrap and blank price sticker on rear wrap.  Interior clean and unmarked; a few pages have erased margin pencil lines; no markings in text; some black & white illustrations and line drawings.  ‘What is the nature of the universe?  Where do we come from, and why are we here?  For centuries philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers have pondered these questions in the never-ending search for meaning in the cosmos.  In God’s Laughter, an eloquent, clear-sighted exploration of how science and religion have influenced cosmology over the ages, Gerhard Staguhn draws provocative parallels between the rational desire to understand the universe and the spiritual quest for knowledge of the absolute.’ (from rear wrap)