Science... take yer pick

[rayheinrich]

Hey Ray-

The two do have their differences so I'm leaving both up as a "take yer pick" kind of option.  That said, the common thread between them is my belief in God and science, as I cannot see the two as separable or mutually exclusive.

I am intrigued by many of the ideas behind "The God Theory" by astrophysicist Bernard Haisch.  You may want to give it a read, as your PS seems to carry many similar sentiments.  And thanks for that PS, as it added a lot for me.

... Mark

I asked my wife* about Haish's book. Her opinion is that it's a compendium
of restatements, but should not necessarily be faulted as earnest attempts
to popularize these subjects are educational. (I'm not sure what she meant
by "educational" as the woman is chockfull of irony.) Her major objection was
to how the definition of "purpose" kept shifting to whatever was convenient
to the argument at hand. But then she thinks gods**/purposes/meanings-of-life
are artifacts of society, of social animals; that honey-bees probably have them
as well (but I don't think she meant to demean honey-bees by the comparison).
A honey-bee god... I guessed the sun; she said it was probably flowers.
(As I've never read the book, these are her opinions, not mine.)
- ray


*She started out majoring in religion (history of, comparative, something like that),
but switched to philosophy and history (double-major). Luckily for her, she married
an electronic technician who could make enough money to support her intellectual
hobbies (she was the one that called them that, not me).

**I remember talking with her about gods (or God for that matter). She said she was
interested in people's beliefs/interaction with them; whether they existed or not
wasn't that interesting and that gods probably felt the same way about us.