[cornelis]

What about politics and science?

[IronJack]

Nietzsche: "God is dead."

God: "Nietzsche is dead.

Which statement is verifiable?

[Dumb_Ox]

The tide began to turn a decade later, however, when William Jennings Bryan began preaching against Darwinism. He was influenced by a 1923 book, The New Geology, which argued that Earth's apparently ancient age was an artifact created by God to test people's faith.

Here is an interesting book review of a history on Young Earth creationism.

[edsheppa]

And biologist Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, insists that "a lot of scientists really don't know what they are missing by not exploring their spiritual feelings."

Feelings - yes, that about sums it up.

[scripter]

Ping.

[scripter]

I didn't include you in my ping list by accident. My list is now sorted so I can better add/remove folks.

[Consort]

Physics, metephysics, consciousness, spirituality, etc: You need unified thinking to devise a unified theory; you need to include everything to devise a theory of everything.

[js1138]

Oh boy, another one, placeholder bump.

[gubamyster]

bttt

[r9etb]

Charles Townes, a Nobel-winning physicist and coinventor of the laser, has said that discoveries of physics "seem to reflect intelligence at work in natural law."

The point here is not unimportant: the working assumption is that there is no intelligence at work in natural law. Theories that posit a role for an intelligent agent are rejected scornfully -- usually as "untestable".

What that really means is that the scientific method (as propounded on threads like these, anyway) is inadequate if the universe does not conform to its atheistic assumptions.

It's always good to identify one's blind spots.

[maro]

bump

[Incorrigible]

Hey Race,

I read this in the magazine earlier today and thought you'd be interested.