No need for scientists to be dogmatic about the existence, or not, of God -

The Spectator - UK ^ | May 28, 2005 | Paul Johnson

[lsilver5]

I strongly recommend Daniel C. Matt's GOD AND THE BIG BANG. It's a fascinating explanation of the complementary alternative strategies of the scientific and the spiritual. Science enables us to probe infinitestimal particles of matter and unimaginable depths of outer space. Spirituality guides us through inner space, enabeling us to retrace our path to oneness and to live in the light of what we discover.

[bondserv]

Sorry my friend. If anything, it is the exact opposite.

I am most likely such a fool to be misreading the current revolution in science, but there are many much smarter than I who see this transformation for what it is. As with science throughout history, paradigm shifts in discovery are hard for those devotee's of the previous paradigm to come along with the progressives.

[RadioAstronomer]

As with science throughout history, paradigm shifts in discovery are hard for those devotee's of the previous paradigm to come along with the progressives.

Absolutely. And we are seeing it with the backlash against evolution. Case in point: how painful was the transition from an Earth centered model to a Sun centered one.

Any true change that challenges the core religious belief structures have been vehemently apposed thru history. This is no different.

Also, religion has survived those upheavals; it will survive this one as well.

IMHO, in the future, these times will be looked at like that arguments against Galileo. Quaint but silly.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

BTTT

[frgoff]

It's interesting to note that the Big Bang was met with a great deal of resistance when initially proposed precisely because it declared a beginning and required a First Cause outside of natural explanation.

[tacticalogic]

The problem is not that they don't need to be dogmatic about the existence of God, it's that they won't.

[bondserv]

And we are seeing it with the backlash against evolution.

The religious have disagreed with TOE from it's inception. Our finally getting on the ball with hard science is what's upending the applecart. New discoveries and information science are the culprits. Information is massless and therefore not constrained by time.

[Old Professer]

Darwin argued that his theory worked only when free from intervention; human societies can, and do, in pockets, reverse the survival of the fittest through numbers by ostracism, force or humiliation.

[SteveMcKing]

; human societies can, and do, in pockets, reverse the survival of the fittest through numbers by ostracism, force or humiliation.

It's amazing to see "social darwinism" in action. Sometimes I think it would be more civil to fight like apes to win a female, then drag her away by the hair, than it is to go find a woman the proper way by using the manners and lies that we've adopted.

[LiteKeeper]

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