see, it's not just american fundie nuts

[rone]

Cambridge University cosmologist and mathematician John Barrow was awarded $1.6-million yesterday to do research into whether God is sitting at the control panel behind the Theory of Everything about the universe.

He won the 2006 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, the world's richest individual scholarly research grant.  Its initiator, mutual-fund investor Sir John Templeton, specified that it be worth more than the Nobel Prize (which is worth about $1.5-million) so the media would take it seriously.

Dr. Barrow, 53, author of 17 books and one play (about infinity), believes that monotheistic religious thought about God and creation offers a better explanation than anything else, including most science, of how the universe works.

I can't wait to see the research for this puppy.  I'm sure God's been waiting for the chance to show off his skills.

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I think you are all missing the big picture here

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

What we are looking at is a chance to revisit the Victorian Era and the struggle between the Classical And Canonical Oxford Movement on the one side and the traditonal low church 'evangelicals' on the other side as they try to resolve what to do with their cosmology.

We will get to see whether the debate moves back to the traditionalists 'mechanistic' world, and with it the notions of monods, or will this be the start of a new round of spiritualisms.

All of which, if done right, should restore the corset to it's proper role of keeeping the cosmos from embarking upon another Big Bang...

Go look at the Killer End Line again:

"There are some who say that just because we use our minds to appreciate the order and complexity of the universe around us, there is nothing more to that order than what is imposed by the human mind. That is a serious misjudgment."

How many folks impose which ever notion of order fits them at the time, because that makes them feel safer - whether we are talking 'the religious' or the more 'religious' those who hold, as a core tenant of faith, that there can be no ThatThingiePoohThatScaresMeMore.

Hence why it is that we really DO need to get going on creating a very creative and constructive "Militant Agnostics" Movement.