ISEN-ASTC-L Archives

Informal Science Education Network

ISEN-ASTC-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Lisa Jo Rudy <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Informal Science Education Network <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:38:14 EST
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (33 lines)
ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
*****************************************************************************

 
This seems like a wonderfully sane way to reconcile science and religion  
without excluding either as absolutely essential to the natural world as it is  
observable.  If God is present in all things, then all we observe,  research, 
describe or induce is, by definition, of God.  
 
(of course we then get into the Augustinian conversation about whether God  
is omnibenevolent, which gets just the merest bit complicated...and then sorta  
winds itself around the question of free will...but I think that's beyond 
this  discussion!)
 
Lisa

A more  modern approach suggests that a supreme being can not be  proven
scientifically because the scientist can not isolate any instance  where
God is not present.  That is by definition a supreme being  includes
omniscience and omnipresence.  How could we ever isolate a  miracle and
then reproduce it?  If we could- would we need God or be  God?


 

***********************************************************************
More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the
Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org.
To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the
message  SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to
[log in to unmask]

ATOM RSS1 RSS2