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Metanexus: Views 2001.12.17 2435 words “Humans have told each other stories for thousands of years. At campfiresand in courts and temples, humans told stories about the origin of theirworld, of the hunting grounds of their tribe, of women and men, of thediscovery of wheat and of fire, of the sun and the moon. Creation storiesexpressed…
Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott has predicted the longevity of everything from the Berlin Wall to Broadway musicals. I asked Gott to apply his mathematical formula to religion—both the great world religions, and some newer offshoots.
Metanexus: Views 2001.11.28 3806 words According to Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D.: “Humanity’s theological conceptionshave changed over the thousands of years just as biological species haveevolved over the millions. And these ascertainable theological conceptionshave had immense, scientifically-definable effects on human behavior.” This is an interesting statement, and not for its theological implicationsalone, for it would seem…
A review of John A. Jungerman’s “World in Process: Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics.”
Whether by cultural indoctrination, genetic coding, evolutionary quirk, emergent property of the brain, divine grace, or whatever, most of us tend to express our gratitude when we receive something good and pleasant that we did not ask for, or which, we feel, need not have been given to us. Every day that we rise from…
Biography I was born in 1924 in St. Petersburg(which was, at the time, Leningrad). I completed the high school in June, 1941, for two days prior to the attack of Germany on my country and enrolled in the Medical Institute. Leningrad was soon fully besieged by enemies; however, educational study in the Institute continued all…
Metanexus: Views 2001.11.17 2594 words Today’s column by Greg Peterson is the fourth and final response to PhilClayton’s column on the philosophy of Michael Polanyi that appeared onFriday (2001.11.09) on Metanexus. More information about the chemist turnedphilosopher, Michael Polanyi, is included in the introduction to thatcolumn. Greg Peterson is Associate Profesor of Religion at Thiel…
My response to Philip Clayton’s paper is in four parts: a “Reader’s Digest” version of Clayton’s basic positions an attempt to show that Clayton’s positions are closer to Polanyi than he indicates a brief suggestion about the theology/science engagement a question about logos and telos-in Aristotle, Aquinas, Polanyi, and Clayton, particularly as it pertains to…
Metanexus: Views 2001.11.14 1657 words Martinez Hewlett, in his guise as a recovering reductionist, is the autho=rof today’s column. It, too, is a response to the column by Phil Clayton onthe philosophy of Michael Polanyi which appeared this past Friday(2001.11.09) on Metanexus. For more information about the chemist turnedphilosopher, Michael Polanyi, as well as a…
This essay, by Dr. Andy F. Sanders of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is a response to the column by Phil Clayton on “Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal Knowledge” which appeared this past Friday (2001.11.09) on Metanexus. Dr Andy F. Sanders is Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Theology…