1. Professor Huston Smith has elegantly summarized the essence of the Science-Religion dialogue in the following terms: “My favorite analogy is to imagine the physical universe as a giant balloon. Within it we can shine our flashlights (the scientific method) on anything inside the balloon, but we can’t get the flashlights outside the balloon to…
The author engages himself in a conversation on the conundrum of how it can be that (a) Evil exists, and yet (b) God is beneficent, and (c) God is omnipotent.
Throughout the ages people have exhibited a range of emotions and social behaviours to their gods, suggesting many different patterns of relationship. The Old Testament speaks of divine messages coming in dreams. Sarah laughed at a messenger of God (Gen18:12), Abraham haggled with God (Gen 18), Moses encountered God in a burning bush (Ex3:4), Jacob…
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Molecules are the basis of life and molecules are quantum systems. We must, therefore, enter our knowledge of the quantum structure of molecules into the discussion of biology.
Metanexus: Views 2001.12.27 2056 words Willem Drees asserts that religions emerged in confrontation with the powerof storms, of the sea and the mountains, thunder and lightning. Whenconfronted with unpredictable events we still use animistic language. Weeven do so in our dealings with technological products; the car ‘does notwant’ to start and the computer ‘does not…