This TEDx talk by Michael Dowd reconciles science and religion.
“Reality is my God and evidence is my scripture.
Big History is my creation story and ecology is my theology.
Integrity is my salvation and right relationship to reality is my mission…”
The Laser Has Become an Indispensable Technology for Living, Discovering, Flourishing In 1954 Charles Hard Townes, James Gordon and Herbert Zeiger successfully isolated excited ammonia molecules, thereby producing the capability for amplifying electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range. The result of their success was the production of the world’s first “maser,” a concept for which…
I am always torn when it comes to criticism of my thinking. On the one hand, my inclination is to let it pass in silence. I have had my say, and now it is the turn of others. I am never quite sure that anyone gains if one spends time with charge and counter charge. …
The task I have set for myself is to combine in a coherent way three interlacing strands of future oriented thinking: futurology, eschatology, and ethics. The ethical task of the present generation, as I see it, is to project future visions of a just and sustainable global community and then enlist present resources to…
THE MIRRORING MIND – by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo. This video is a non-commercial work created to inspire, made for educational purposes, inspired by the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter as explored in the magnificent book GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: An Eternal Golden Braid. It offers my interpretation of Strange Loops of Self Reference, recursion,…
The online bookmaker Paddy Power currently offers 100 to 1 odds that the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, will discover God.[1] While somewhat glib, this factoid does hint at the creative play at work in what Barbara Herrnstein Smith calls the “nexus” of science and religion. Speaking of a nexus reveals…
I wish to say, just at the beginning, that we are very convinced of the great relevance of Leonardo Polo’s philosophical anthropology. To speak here today is due to that conviction, and to the attempt that our particular opinion could be judge by an impartial audience. Significance of Leonardo Polo’s Anthropology We want to focus…