Sarbajit, The question your definition raises is how does God, defined as " 'the' principle which regulates existence/the uinivers/multiverse/ parallel worlds or whatever" differ from what science is looking for?
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Bruce Sherwood <bruce.sherw...@gmail.com>wrote: > This may be relevant to the US situation: I was brought up Baptist and > fled in my late teens. Among the reasons for fleeing was esthetic: the > worldview was constricted and stifling -- it deliberately ruled out > the sense of wonder and delight that comes with a science-based view > of the world (evolution, cosmology, etc.). A more banal reason for > flight was deep dissatisfaction with all the mumbo-jumbo. I became a > Unitarian (now called Unitarian-Universalist, or UU). For those on > this list unfamiliar with UUs, it's a non-credal "religion" that > includes atheists, Christians, Buddhists, pagan, whatever -- there is > a set of excellent principles but no creed. UU was a place that people > like me, born when I was (1938), fled to. > > Only very recently was it brought to my attention that nowadays new > UUs typically are NOT fleeing a Christian upbringing. Rather they come > from the "not-affiliated", a rapidly growing group in the US. They > come with little or no Christian baggage of the kind that I still drag > around like Marley's chains. God or no god isn't a big deal with them. > They're just looking for a community in which the deep questions of > life can be thought about together in a serious, unloaded way. > > Bruce > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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