September 12, 2009
WSJ Article – Man vs. God
Utterly fascinating.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574405030643556324.html
The first author is clearly a believer, but she has quite an interesting perspective -
“Religion was not supposed to provide explanations that lay within the competence of reason but to help us live creatively with realities for which there are no easy solutions and find an interior haven of peace; today, however, many have opted for unsustainable certainty instead. But can we respond religiously to evolutionary theory? Can we use it to recover a more authentic notion of God?”
But I still think the only claim to the possibility of divine existence is the question: who wrote the rules? Who said that all that goes up must come down? Who said F = MA and 1+1 = 2? On whose authority does light travel at 299 792 458 m / s and E = MC2?
I dunno, and I don’t think anyone else knows either.
