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…
The Notion of Events and Three Ways of Knowing: Problems with mentalistic explanations, free will, self, soul, and intrinsic motivation Perturbations In order to build a scientific theory it is necessary to start off by giving some informal definitions of the basic units to be studied. This theory starts by introducing the notion…
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…
It is crucial to identify the salient features of distinct aspects: science itself, the philosophical view known as scientific realism, the metaphysical ideology of scientific materialism, and the dogmatic form of that ideology known as scientism.
Thomas Jay Oord interviews German Lutheran theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg.
From: George Ellis … I fully accept ontological uncertainty. This has lead me to realise that there is a need to put forward an alternative to Ursula Goodenough’s “Covenant with Mystery”, which will try to encapsulate the kind of approach I have in mind. Both are attempts to deal with the relation of intellectual understanding…
The purpose of this paper is to outline some contributions that “ecofeminism” can make to the science and religion discourse. This is not meant to be definitive, but only to demonstrate some useful areas of collaboration between feminism—especially ecofeminism—and the science and religion discourse.1 I begin with an underlying assumption: while modern science has produced…
I am delighted that the organizers of the “Future Visions” Conference chose to include a session on “Complementary Ways Of Knowing.” and I was honored to be part of it. I think that the epistemological issues are not only critical to the science/religion dialogue, but also to the resolution of the postmodern predicament and…
Mind the Light Plenary remarks to the State of the World Forum, New York, NY September 2000 <http://www.worldforum.org>. We are created by divine light We are sustained by divine light We are surrounded by divine light We are ever growing into divine light In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and…