Interesting post on religion and science echoing the voices of great minds.
“The living God is related to the categories and formal arguments of our abstract thinking as fire is related to paper.” Arthus Bogel
“Great science, which we once considered an ‘enemy’ of religion, is now helping us see that we’re standing in the middle of awesome Mystery, and the only response before that Mystery is immense humility. Astrophysicists are much more comfortable with darkness, emptiness, non-explainability (dark matter, black holes), and living with hypotheses than most Christians I know. Who could have imagined this?” Richard Rohr
“I am … reminded of the humility of those early theologians who knew that when we seek to speak of God we do so only out of the glimmers of understanding that sparkle amid the vast background of uncomprehended mystery….” Robert J. Russell
“In a recent sermon [Rev. John Buchanan] writes that the science that many Christians had felt over the centuries to be…
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I’m glad you re-blogged this, Gordon. It is the way I think/believe. It shouldn’t be easy for me; I spent my life in academe, and many academics don’t enjoy things inexplicable by the laws of nature (the scientific laws). Somehow, I never felt compelled to explain. I just believed. Another overwhelming gift of God, I think.
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CA, I thought the Daily Riches piece was really fine. I know where you’re coming from – OR – to be grammatically proper, I know whereof you speak. -:)
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