Take a brief excursion to an entertaining article -
MY GOD PROBLEM, By Natalie Angier (Pulitzer Prize for reporting as a science writer for The New York Times)
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/angier06/angier06_index.html_______
Also:
BEYOND REDUCTIONISM Reinventing The Sacred, By Stuart A. Kauffman (emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, a MacArthur Fellow and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
excerpt:
"On the other side of this vast divide than those who hold to a transcendent God and His authority for meaning and values, are the innumerable secular humanists, children of the enlightenment and contemporary science, who hold firmly to reality as revealed by science, find values in their love for their families and friends, a general sense of fairness and a morality that needs no basis in God's word. Yet we secular humanists have paid an unspoken price for our firm sense that (reductionist) science tells us what is real. First, we have no well wrought scientific basis for our humanity - despite the interesting fact that quantum mechanics on the Copenhagen interpretation assumes free willed physicists who choose what quantum features to measure and thereby change the physical world. The two cultures, science and humanities, remain firmly un-united. And equally important, we have been subtly robbed of our deep capacity for spiritualism. We have come to believe that spirituality is inherently co-localized with a belief in God, and that without such a belief, spirituality is inherently foolish, questionable, without foundation, wishful thinking, silly."
Full article:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index.html
