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Metanexus:Views 2001.10.01 4144 words In today’s column, the second of a two-part series, Dr. Paul Utukuru continueshis exploration of the relationship between science and religion via twoparallel processes of evolution: a “Top Down” and a “Bottom Up” approach. Inthe column below, he refers to the views of various scientists and otherexperts in the field as…
Metanexus:Views 2001.09.26 1550 words “What draws humans repeatedly to war?” asks Jill Neimark today in her reviewof Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by English ethicistJonathan Glover (September 2000, Yale University Press, ISBN:0-300-08700-4). Pleasure, she writes, is one reason; transcendence isanother. But there are other reasons, justifications, and means. As a New Yorker,…
Abstract This paper considers evolution as a process that involves progressively increasing realization of the infinite potentiality of the underlying Ultimate Reality, referred to as God in religious parlance. A basic tenet of this model is the recognition that interactions in Nature are of two broad categories-“Bottom Up” and “Top Down,” as elaborated in their…
Metanexus: Views 2001.19.01 1020 words “The tragic events of September 11 have been universally condemned,”observes Muzaffar Iqbal, author of “Islam and Science”. Prof. Iqbal is alsothe.Founder and President of the Center for Islam and Science(www.cis-ca.org) and Regional Director for the Muslim World, SRCP, CTNS(www.ctns.org). Moreover, he notes as well, that these events have, “onceagain, shown…
Metanexus:Views 2001.09.17 2989 words Today’s columnist, Michael Lotti, asks us to think about intelligent designby first picturing the following uncomplicated image: “I am walking on the beach when I see a watch lying on the sand. Uponseeing the watch, I can, say the ID theorists, infer that it isintelligently designed. This is, of course, true….
Recent interest in Neurotheology raises interesting questions, and hints at some possible answers about thought processes, God, and the natural universe. What is neurotheology? It is not a science, but rather a focus of interest in our growing knowledge about the human brain. Neurotheology deals with the representation in the brain of religious experience. Begley’s…
One summer night when I was outdoors, I stared skyward in reflection and pictured myself in an all powerful vehicle that could sail indefinitely on and on. In my flight of imagination, I took off far above the clouds and into the expanse beyond. My mind transported me past distant planets, crossing the remote outskirts…
Introduction Time has passed since 1959 when C. P. Snow formulated the concept of two cultures – scientific and humanist culture – perceived as antagonists [1]. The marriage between fundamental science and technology is now accomplished, generating the technoscientific culture which drives the huge irrational force of globalization, centered on the economy, which in turn…
Metanexus: VIEWS 2001.08.31 3088 words Raymond E. Grizzle, a Research Scientist at the Jackson Estuarine Laboratoryat the University of New Hampshire tells us that when he “began to explore the relationship between science (particularly biology,which is my major area of study) and theology, I quickly encountered thewritings of “young-earth creationists” who insisted there were only…
Metanexus: Views 2001.08.27. 4419 words Today, Dr. Edward J. Larson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book __Summerfor the Gods__ (1997) brings to us an essay on that Mecca of naturalhistory, organismal biology, and evolutionary theory–namely, the GalapagosIslands. The pivotal historical role played by the Galapagos in the creationof Darwin’s own thinking is well…