Book recommendation: 'Calculating God', by Robert Sawyer. Entertaining, thought provoking and well-written sf novel revolving around the scientific/religious 'dichotomy' (fairly spoilerfree description: the protagonists are a human atheist, and an alien whose more advanced science incontrovertibly pointed towards the existence of a creator).
My personal theory is that the scientists and religious people who disagree so strongly both believe in an essentially limited deity. I see nothing about the universe that precludes the existence of God, and I do not believe in a creator whose very existence is challenged by our explorations into the universe around us. And "there are some things man was not meant to *try* to know" is just silly - if we really weren't 'meant' to know something, it'd be inaccessible.
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Date: 2002-07-01 02:48 am (UTC)My personal theory is that the scientists and religious people who disagree so strongly both believe in an essentially limited deity. I see nothing about the universe that precludes the existence of God, and I do not believe in a creator whose very existence is challenged by our explorations into the universe around us. And "there are some things man was not meant to *try* to know" is just silly - if we really weren't 'meant' to know something, it'd be inaccessible.