This blog started out as a companion piece to my book, Musings from the Christian Left (excerpts of which can be found in the July 2004 link) and to support a planned radio show. Now, its simply a long term writing project from a Christian Left Libertarian perspective (meaning I often argue for liberty within the (Catholic) Church, rather than liberty because the church takes care of a conservative view of morality.

Saturday, April 02, 2011

String theory forces us to abandon small images of God

String theory forces us to abandon small images of God by Rich Heffern

My response:

It is not natural science that is the enemy of relgion, but psychology and religion itself. The deeper questions can't be answered in string theory. Indeed, they can't be answered at all. This is why they are great questions.

One can explain human conciousness with a combination of linguistics,
chaos theory and neuroscience. Whether God can exist within that formulation is an unknowable which comes down to belief, not knowledge.

Militant Atheism is actually the best proof of God. Why do militant atheists bother? At the deepest of levels, they bother because they love other people and don't want to see them abused by religion. One could explain that as a biological quirk or one can posit that it is God that gives them this concern for others.

Love is either a trick of biology, a viral idea or a driving force that we can never understand, but that we call God - and that Christians call the Holy Spirit. The more deeply one experiences the Spirit, the more deeply one believes in Her.

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