Religion: Helping or Hindering Science?
By Paul H. Carr, web page www.MirrorOfNature.org
Institute of Religion in an Age of Science Conference,
Star Island off Portsmouth, NH
Monday, 4 August 2014, 3:30 PM
Is religion fostering or impeding the development of science? We have made progress since 1600, when the church burned Dominican Giordano Bruno at the stake in Rome for religious heresy and believing that the stars were like our sun with planets. In 2010, Dominican Francisco Ayala, a Spanish evolutionary biologist, won the $1.6 million Templeton Prize for affirming life’s spiritual dimension.
Nevertheless biblical literalists, who oppose Darwinian evolution, recently built the $26 million Creation Science Museum in Kentucky. It is located in the part of the United States known as the evangelical epicenter, which has the lowest family income and educational attainment of any region.
Main-line denominations have, on the other hand, fostered education and the development of science by founding colleges and universities. I will share other religious contributions, including the green-evangelical question: What car would Jesus drive?
Basic information of Bible. Summary of Old Testament and New Testament. Overview of Books and their authors. Overview of Authors of the Bible. Bible basic overview
Jesus came to earth as a King. He offers to reign in the lives of believers until He returns to Earth and reigns forever. Christians who surrender control of their lives have the privilege of experiencing a taste of God's Kingdom - Heaven on Earth.
I. Thoureau's Seach for Place, II> "Men of Concord" Illustrated by N. C. Wyet...Paul H. Carr
I.Thoreau's Search for Place, From NY City to Walden Pond
II N. C. Wyeth's Illustrations of Thoreau's Journals
III> Preserving our place form Climate Change
IV IRAS Conference on Climate Change, Star Island, 24 June-July 1, 2016.
Climate Scientist James Hansen's 1981 Predictions Came True. What abouot 2016Paul H. Carr
1. 1981 Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. (Science)
2. 2016 Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Superstorms… (Atmos. Phys. Chem)
3. Ocean acidification is threatening the bottom of our food chain.
4. Is green solar, wind, and nuclear technology advancing fast enough ?
Basic information of Bible. Summary of Old Testament and New Testament. Overview of Books and their authors. Overview of Authors of the Bible. Bible basic overview
Jesus came to earth as a King. He offers to reign in the lives of believers until He returns to Earth and reigns forever. Christians who surrender control of their lives have the privilege of experiencing a taste of God's Kingdom - Heaven on Earth.
I. Thoureau's Seach for Place, II> "Men of Concord" Illustrated by N. C. Wyet...Paul H. Carr
I.Thoreau's Search for Place, From NY City to Walden Pond
II N. C. Wyeth's Illustrations of Thoreau's Journals
III> Preserving our place form Climate Change
IV IRAS Conference on Climate Change, Star Island, 24 June-July 1, 2016.
Climate Scientist James Hansen's 1981 Predictions Came True. What abouot 2016Paul H. Carr
1. 1981 Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. (Science)
2. 2016 Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Superstorms… (Atmos. Phys. Chem)
3. Ocean acidification is threatening the bottom of our food chain.
4. Is green solar, wind, and nuclear technology advancing fast enough ?
Can new technology save us in time? 2. Limits to Growth: Food Crash. Paul H. Carr
The MIT-authored book, "Limits to Growth," projects an economic and food-per-capita collapse. Written in 1972, predictions for the population explosion, water shortages, and non-renewable resource depletion have been accurate to date. Can we afford higher food prices?
Thoreau: From Mystical to Mathematical BeautyPaul H. Carr
David Henry Thoreau
1. Mystic and transcendentalist
- Nature photography with Thoreau quotes
2. Contributions as a Natural Philosopher (Scientist).
3. Career as metaphor for the transition from a mystical to mathematical view of nature in American thought.
- From 18th Century theology of Jonathan Edwards
- To 20th Cent. fractal mathematics of B. Mandelbrot
4. Re-envisioning nature’s beauty to save or planet
The Future of Religion & Science:Beautiful Music, Math, and MythPaul H. Carr
In “The Future of Faith,” Harvey Cox notes the increasing numbers of people who are “spiritual but not religious.” They are deserting organized religion over such issues as bureaucratic wrongs, women’s and gay’s rights, and outdated cosmology. How can they be reached? A more creative emphasis on the beauty of the Divine, expressed in music, myth, and art, is essential for the future. Let’s update our ancient mythological stories and liturgy with new discoveries. Our universe is more vast, awesome, and beautiful than previous generations ever imagined. Music has also been a conceptual force in the development of mathematics and science, from the beautiful “music of the spheres” of the Greeks to the big bang’s whispers. In Rob Bell’s video “Rhythm,” he shares: “When I think of God, I hear a song… The question is, are you in tune?”
MIGHT THOREAU’S “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” IMPROVE INCOME INEQUALITY?Paul H. Carr
Re-Balancing Economics with Ethics
Pursuit of Corporate Profit vs
The Common Good of Society.
2. Maximized Economic Growth,
but increased Income Inequality.
3. Re-balnce with “Trickle-Up” Economics, rather than “Trickle-Down.”
Dr. Stephen Phinney has a defined burden for unveiling the Truth behind the post-modern movement of evolution, old earth and humanism. Creationism is the Biblical Worldview belief that humanity, life, the earth, and the universe (as God sees it) are the creation of a supernatural agency – the God of Abraham.
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COVID's Impact on Inflation and Income EqualityPaul H. Carr
Will inflation from the COVID recovery be permanent?
What does the Federal Reserve Predict?
Has the COVID recovery increased income equality?
Why do job openings now outnumber job seekers?
Wage Serfs: Principles & Politics Trumping PeoplePaul H. Carr
Presented at Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
Higher taxes in Europe result in more income equality than in the US.
Invisible hand of Adam Smith's economics versus the Tragedy of the Commons
Golden Rule of Economics: Those who have the gold make the rules.
Overcoming Limitations of "Naturalism Without Religion"Paul H. Carr
Tillich’s existential and Whitehead’s process theologies overcome the limitations of “naturalism without religion.”
Tillich, Wildman, Whitehead, and Bracken update the Bible’s promise of eternal life as well as the meaning and goal of history. Tillich’s description of religion as the Dimension of Depth resonates with Goodenough’s "Sacred Depths of Nature."
For Whitehead, the goal of the Universe is the production of beauty.
“The thirst for beauty that permeates our lives is an opening to transcendence,” according to theologian Philip Hefner.
GREEN ENERGY’S ECONOMIC PROGRESS
Reducing carbon missions by 51% in 2030
-Environmental, social, and governance funds have more than tripled to reach $2 Trillion.
-Three new “Mean Green” board members are forcing Exxon to clean up its act.
-GM is betting big on batteries for electric vehicles with a new $2.3 billion plant in Ohio.
-Advances in electric vehicles and next-generation nuclear reactors are helping the US achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
ACHIEVE NET ZERO CO2 BY 2050 or an Economic Depression
ECONOMICS (GDP)
- Increasing climate extremes cost $390 billion in 2020.
- Present trends indicate a 10%-GDP-decrease depression
-Carbon Fee Plus Dividend solution
NON-CARBON EMITTING TECHNOLOGIES:
Electric Vehicles (EVs) charged by
Next generation nuclear reactors
Greener Power for More Electric VehiclesPaul H. Carr
GREENER POWER FOR THE INCREASING NUMBER OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV)
by Paul H. Carr
Charge EVs at Night
- Electricity demand from 12 PM to 6 AM is very low.
Install PV charging stations for daytime charging.
More electricity by using the waste heat of present generators.
-Coal, nuclear 32% efficient
- Natural gas turbines 44% efficient
Replace carbon emitting coal and gas with nuclear.
Post-COVID Economic Challenges: Unemployment, Increasing Inflation & National...Paul H. Carr
Post-COVID Economic Challenges: Unemployment, Income inequality, Increasing Inflation, & National Debt.
Paul H Carr summarized a webinar by the following: Eric Rosengren, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Wendy Edelberg, Brookings Institution, and Philip Swagel, Director, Congressional Budget Office. Would less inflationary and debt increasing relief act have been better than President Biden’s $1.9 Trillion bill?
A Newer, Millennial Testament of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE.Paul H. Carr
A NEWER, MILLENNIAL TESTAMENT of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE."
The Old Testament was from about 1500 BCE to 0. The New Testament was added and completed in 100 CE.
Let's add a Newer (Millennial) Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge, wisdom, and truth to the New Testament:
newer science, poetry (Psalms), and literature. The universe is still awakening and we are called to be co-creators in the continuing creation. A Newer Testament , which updates the Bible's flat earth cosmology, would help in correcting the misinformation in the popular Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Quantum Mechanics: Electrons, Transistors, & LASERS. Paul H. Carr
Quantum Mechanics, QM, has enabled new technologies that impact our daily lives. Yet, there have been at least 14 different QM interpretations in the last century. “If you think you understand QM, you don’t,” said Richard Feynman. Our macroscopic language is inadequate to describe the wave-particle duality of microscopic QM particles. Mathematics works better. This talk illuminated the production of the play Copenhagen, in which German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who directed the German attempt to make an atom bomb, visited Niels Bohr in Denmark during WWII.
A NEWER TESTAMENT of Continuous Creation since 100 CEPaul H. Carr
Old Testament 1500 BCE to 0.
New Testament 0 to 100 CE. A total of 1600 yr.
1900 years since the Bible was completed in 100 CE.
Let’s add a Newer Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge, wisdom, & truth to the “New Testament.”
-Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century
-New Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
An awakening universe with increasing globalization.
NEW HOT-to-COOL COSMOLOGY: Amazing Progress Yet Greater QuestionsPaul H. Carr
Astronomy has progressed from astrology to precision, hot-to-cool, cosmology. Georges Lemaitre, using Einstein’s General Relativity, predicted in 1930s that our universe expanded from a primeval atom in a hot big bang. In 1964, radio astronomers detected the whispering cosmic microwave background radiation from this hot cosmic explosion. Since 1993, an increasing number of satellites have measured that this Planck black-body radiation has cooled, as it expanded, to a very cool 2.725 K. It also has fluctuations of one part in 100,000.
Alan Guth’ inflationary universe theory predicted this as arising from quantum fluctuations at the “Beginning.”
Climate Change Extremes: Increasing Wildfires & HurricanesPaul H. Carr
1. CLIMATE CHANGE EXTREMES: INCREASING FOREST FIRES AND HURRICANES
2. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE:
CO2 from fossil fuel burning is warming our Earth via the Greenhouse effect
3. WHAT WE CAN DO IMMEDIATELY:
A more vegetarian diet.
From Reductionism to Emergence: Transcending Death During COVID-19Paul H. Carr
How might we reduce the above-normal death rates from COVID-19? Our hope is for science to develop a vaccine. The reductive sequencing of the parts of the coronavirus could help. Francis Collins, who led the team that developed the science for sequencing the parts
of the human genome, entitled his book The Language of God, God being the holistic creator. Religion helps us transcend death. Science itself is moving from reductionism to emergent holism, which is closer to religion.
Scientists like Wigner, Deacon, and Dickerson are developing an emergent and non-materialist worldview. Theologians Clayton and Nurnberger are working on the emergence of spirit. Carol and John Albright envision a creative Interactive World, Interactive God. Cardiologist Van Lommel’s 20-year observations of near-death experiences give evidence for life after death.
CREATIVITY: Individual & CollaborativePaul H. Carr
The Creative Process
1. Individual
"There is no logical way to discover. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order.” Albert Einstein
- The 3-step creative process: informed, unformed, transformed
- Neuroscience: listening to music inspires creativity
2. Collaborative
- Searching for truth to expand and share our limited knowledge and worldviews.
Confront COVID-19 and Climate Change NowPaul H. Carr
COVID-19 & CLIMATE: BOTH GLOBAL, TEMPERATURE INCREASE
If we wait for a crisis, it’s too late:
Time after drastic action: COVID, months;
CLIMATE, century.
The COVID “stay in place” reduced greenhouse emissions up to 17%. Reduced population.
Non-US-Deficit Increasing solution: Carbon fee plus dividend for all.
What we can do: more vegetarian diet, less airline travel, more nuclear reactors
From Theology to Fractals: Mystical to Mathematical BeautyPaul H. Carr
Mystical to Mathematical Beauty.
I traced the transition from mystical to mathematical beauty in American thought: from the theologian Jonathan Edwards in the 18th century, through natural philosopher David H. Thoreau's "Walden" in the 19th, to the mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot's "Fractal Geometry of Nature" in the 20th century. Chapter 4 of Paul H. Carr's "Beauty in Science and Spirit,"
Paul Tillich: Climate Prophecy versus ProfitPaul H. Carr
Paul Tillich’s 1962 sermon, “Man and Earth,” was prophetic. He said, “ We have no guarantee against man-made floods….” Floods are now increasing. Global ice is melting. Sea levels are rising four times faster than in 1900 from global warming.
What are the preliminary and ultimate concerns of those who deny what 97% of climate scientists have concluded? That is, increasing carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from our profitable fossil fuel burning, are warming our planet via the Greenhouse effect.
Let’s invest in jobs with-long term payoff. Until we get a vaccine, there will be continuing unemployment in the jobs where people are close together: restaurants, theaters, sporting events, airplanes, and cruises. Grants for more energy efficient homes and industrial buildings would make jobs for local contractors. The resulting lower energy costs with lower carbon dioxide emissions would repay the cost several times over. This comes when science tells us there is no time for delay on dealing with climate change.
Joe Biden’s “build back better” will immediately invest in sustainable job creation, new industries, and re-invigorated regional economies.
To outcompete China, Americans could invent, commercialize and manufacture the new battery technology needed to store solar and wind energy and for electric vehicles. Businesses and job creators all across our country would supply the materials and parts.
Millions of construction workers are needed to build affordable housing and to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including aging nuclear reactors. These generate 20% of our electricity with no carbon dioxide emissions. Americans are developing advanced reactors that are smaller, safer, and more efficient at half today’s construction costs.
Reform COVID19's Inequality to Avoid RevolutionsPaul H. Carr
COVID19 amplifies inequality, increasing tensions between poor Blacks, Whites, Police, and Immigrants. Economically disadvantaged Blacks joined by Whites are taking to the streets to demand reform. Economic inequality contributed to the French Revolution and to our Civil War, with the most casualties in our history.
We need reform to prevent revolutions. Karl Marx’s wrote his 1847 Communist Manifesto in response the newly rich industrialist’s exploitation of the poor workers in England. During this time, author Charles Dickens, as a boy, had to work ten-hour shifts pasting labels on bottles to support this family, because his father was confined in Debtor’s Prison.
In 1917,Trotsky led the Communist Revolution in Russia that ousted the Tsars’ monarchy. In 1924 Stalin emerged as the leader of the USSR. After WWII, the US fought the Korean and Vietnam Wars to stop the Communists from overrunning the world.
The rich, miserly Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” underwent a conversion to a generous person who celebrated Christmas. In contrast to the Communist revolution, this can be a metaphor for the rule of law that enabled the US to overcome worker exploitation. The US passed child, labor, and anti-trust laws that constrained the power of the rich industrialists.
Since the 1980s, hourly worker pay has not increased in proportion to inflation and increased productivity. This disparity is increasing economic inequality. Most of the increased productivity pay has gone to those with education beyond a bachelor’s degree.
The minimum federal pay of $7.25 per hour has not been increased for over a decade. To keep up with inflation and productivity increases, the minimum wage should be gradually advanced to $ 20 per hour. Recently the minimum wage in Washington, DC increased to $14 per hour.
The property tax that funds public schools results in poor neighborhoods having poor schools and rich neighborhoods having good schools. State, federal, and corporate funds are needed to keep poor kids from being locked into poverty. Our high tech civilization needs an educated workforce. Let’s educate our poor rather than import educated immigrants. We must also reform our tax structure and corporate policies.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
The first step of respiration is called glycolysis. In a series of steps, glycolysis breaks glucose into two smaller molecules - a chemical called pyruvate. A small amount of ATP is formed during this process.
Most healthy cells continue the breakdown in a second process, called the Kreb's cycle. The Kreb's cycle allows cells to “burn” the pyruvates made in glycolysis to get more ATP.
The last step in the breakdown of glucose is called oxidative phosphorylation (Ox-Phos).
It takes place in specialized cell structures called mitochondria. This process produces a large amount of ATP. Importantly, cells need oxygen to complete oxidative phosphorylation.
If a cell completes only glycolysis, only 2 molecules of ATP are made per glucose. However, if the cell completes the entire respiration process (glycolysis - Kreb's - oxidative phosphorylation), about 36 molecules of ATP are created, giving it much more energy to use.
IN CANCER CELL:
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
2. Religion: Helping or Hindering Science?
1.Religion hinders the development of science.
2.Religion helps
3.Religion both helps and hinders.
Reconciling Differences Between:
Region, Education, and Worldviews
WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP
3. • In 1584, Dominican monk Giordano Bruno envisioned the
stars as "countless suns with countless earths, all rotating
around their suns.”
• In 1995, the Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier
Queloz announced the first discovery of a planet orbiting a
star similar to our sun (51 Pegasi). On Feb 2, 2011, NASA
announced 1200 planet candidates.
4. PTOLEMY 150 A. D. COPERNICUS 1543
From The Bones of Copernicus by Dennis Danielson, “American Scientist,” Jan-Feb 2009
5. When Bruno found that proceedings were being initiated
against him for new ideas such as these, he fled from his
native Naples, Italy to Protestant Geneva.
Bruno’s search for intellectual freedom led him to France,
England, and Germany. Homesick, he accepted a patron’s
invitation to return to Italy. Their relationship soured
shortly thereafter, and Bruno was imprisoned for seven
years during his lengthy trial.
6. The Roman Inquisition finally condemned Bruno for heresy;
he refused to recant and was burned at the stake in 1600.
Bruno had published about 20 books.
7. This monument to Bruno was erected in 1889 at the
place he was executed, Campo de Fiori in Rome.
8. • In 1992, Pope John Paul said the Roman Catholic
Church had erred in condemning Galileo.
• He expressed "profound sorrow" and acknowledged
error in Bruno's condemnation to death.
9. In contrast to Bruno, Dominican monk Francisco Ayala was born
in Spain in 1934 and ordained in 1960. The next year he came to the
US where he earned a Ph. D. at Columbia University in
evolutionary biology. He has been President of Sigma Xi and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and was
recently awarded the $1.6M Templeton Prize for progress in
spiritual reality. Ayala believes that religion and science offer
complementary windows for viewing the world.
10. Evolution, Creationism,
& the Battle to Control America's Classrooms
by Michael Berkman Eric Plutzer (2010)
• "Who should determine whether evolution is taught
in the schools and how it is taught? Evolution,
Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's
Classrooms is a thorough investigation of the relative
roles played by school boards and the political
process, by scientists, and by school teachers. You
may be surprised by the answers."
• -Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine
11. Data was collected from 926 nationally representative
participants in the National Survey of High School Biology
Teachers
• 17 % of teachers surveyed did not cover human
evolution at all in their biology class, whereas a
majority of teachers (60%) spent between 1 and 5
hours of class time on it.
• Many teachers among the 60 % that kept evolution
instruction brief explained they wanted to avoid
confrontation with students and parents who believe in
creationism. In many cases, their own knowledge was
also limited.
•At the opposite extreme, 13 % of teachers explicitly endorse creationism or intelligent
design.
•5% percent reported that they support creationism in passing or when answering students'
questions.
12. CHALLENGE
•Just over 40% of Americans still identify
with the idea that God created human
beings pretty much in their present form
at one time within the last 10,000 years or
so.
• Some 49% of those surveyed, however,
believe that humans evolved.
13. Does economics impact our acceptance of
evolution?
Biblical literalists raised $26 M to build the Creation
Science Museum in Petersburg, KY
Museum brings the pages of the Bible to life.
Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden. Children
play and dinosaurs roam near Eden’s Rivers.
Natural selection is not evolution. The cave aquarium
features live blind cavefish, showing how natural
selection allows organisms to possess characteristics
most favorable for a given environment—but it is not
an example of evolution in the molecules-to-man
sense.
14. The 12 States of America:
Since 1980 income inequality has fractured the nation.
By Dante Chinni & James Gimpel, authors of Our Patchwork Nation
THE ATLANTIC, April 2011, pgs 70-71.
15. The 12 States of America:
Since 1980 income inequality has fractured the nation.
By Dante Chinni & James Gimpel
THE ATLANTIC, April 2011, pgs 70-71.
18. -Biblical literalists raised $26 M to build the anti-evolutionary Creation Science
Museum in Petersburg, KY, a region where the median family income is $37,554,
down 2.8% from 1980.
-In contrast, the moneyed suburbs with broader science education have family
incomes of $59,404, up 5.6%.
• ECONOMIC STATUS AFFECTS THE ACCEPTANCE OF EVOLUTION.
• FUNDAMENALIST/EVANGELICAL RELIGION IS THE OPIATE OF THE PEOPLE.
19. Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny? NY Times, 11 May 2011
FUNDAMENTALISTS: LESS EDUCATED & POORER THAN LIBERALS
20. Can our “free” economy survive the increasing
gap between the rich and the poor?
The richest one percent of Americans posses over a third of
the country’s wealth, more than the combined wealth of the
bottom 90 percent of American families.”
In the past 30 years, an increase in income inequality has
been accompanied by increased political polarization.
Historically, income inequality contributed to the French
Revolution, the 1849 European Revolution, and 1917
Communist Revolution in Russia.
Income inequality contributes to the revolutions in the Arab
World.
21. Political polarization, income
inequality, and immigration have
all increased dramatically in the
United States over the past three
decades. The increases have
followed an equally dramatic
decline in these three social
indicators over the first seven
decades of the twentieth century.
The pattern in the social
indicators has been matched by
a pattern in public policies with
regard to taxation of high
incomes and estates and with
regard to minimum wage policy.
We seek to identify the forces that
have led to this observation of a
social turn about in American
society, with a primary focus on
political polarization.
MIT Press 2006
22.
23. Mr. Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His new
book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010" (Crown Forum)
published on Jan. 31,2012
24. Mr. Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His new
book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010" (Crown Forum)
published on Jan. 31,2012
25. WHO SAVED ENGLAND FROM THE BLOOD BATH OF
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?
John Wesley (1703 – 1791) was a
Church of England cleric and
Christian theologian. Wesley is
largely credited, along with his
brother Charles Wesley, as founding
the Methodist movement which
began when he took to
open-air preaching to miners and
the masses in the cities.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in 1968
Bill Graham’s Evangelism seems to have declined.
26. Transformation of Evolutionary Evangelist, Rev. Michael Dowd
• At Bible-Based Evangel College, believed Darwinian purposeless evolution was the
source of moral decline in our society. Later made friends with Darwinians.
• M. Div. at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
•1988, attending course “A New Catholic Mysticism” in Boston,had an epiphany
while hearing Albert LaChance present the scientific universe story presented as a
sacred epic. Ordained in the United Church of Christ . Pastored 3 UCC churches.
• Married atheist science writer Connie Barlow.
• 2007. Published Thank God for Evolution: How Marriage of Science & Religion will Transform you Life & Our World.
27. RELIGION HELPS THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE
Theology has nurtured science by establishing colleges and
universities.
The Congregationalist Pilgrim Fathers established Harvard
University in 1636 to train ministers in the New World rather
than in the Old. Harvard University has matured many Nobel
Prize winners in the sciences.
Roman Catholics have established many institutions of higher
learning: Notre Dame, Georgetown University, Boston College,
Loyola Marymount, and Holy Cross;
Methodists have established Boston University and Drew, etc.
28. RELIGION HELPS SCIENCE
Old Testament theology provided a milieu for the goodness of the material world,
in contrast with the inner contemplation and enlightenment. A monotheistic God
created the material world as “good” and therefore worthy of being investigated.
"It was good," is a recurring theme in the First Chapter of Genesis.
The God of the Bible was consistent and honored His covenant, in contrast with
the capriciousness of polytheistic gods. This consistency contributed to the
emergence of the natural laws of science, whose fruit is technology. For example,
Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity are always present and can not be
"turned off" to explain something new. Newton himself was motivated by a desire
to decipher the clues about God's creation. The created natural world is
contingent and therefore non-deducible from logical principles. The world must
therefore be discovered and investigated by empirical science.
29. Dear Southern Baptist Pastor,
First of all, we grew up in the same faith.
Although I no longer belong to that faith, I am
confident that if we met and spoke privately of
our deepest beliefs, it would be in a spirit of
mutual respect and goodwill. I write to you now
for your counsel and help. Let us see if we can,
and you are willing, to meet on the near side of
metaphysics in order to deal with the real world
we share. I suggest that we set aside our
differences in order to save the Creation...
Sincerely,
E. O. Wilson, Biologist & Secular Humanist
• The number of scientists who
understand the ecological threat to our
planet number in the thousands.
• The number of Southern Baptists
number in the millions.
Published in 2006
30. The evangelicals believe in
CREATION CARE.
They ask the question,
If Jesus were to return to
earth today, what car would
he choose to drive?
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32. Natural knowledge and
biblical interpretation
Augustine believed that the
Biblical text should not be
interpreted literally, if it
contradicts what we know
from science and our God-
given reason.
St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 354 - 430 A.D.
33. Dr. Francis Collins, founder BioLogos.
“I find those rare dramatic moments of scientific
discovery in my own experience to be moments of
worship also, where a revelation about some intricacy
of God’s creation is appreciated for the first time.”
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34. "BioLogos" is a new term for theistic evolution.
http://biologos.org/
• Bios is the Greek word for "life".
•Logos is Greek for "word," with a broader meaning in
Philosophy and Stoicism—namely the rational principle
ordering the universe.
• In Christian theology, "word" includes the Hebrew idea
of a creative agent for all that exists, in addition to being
an ordering principle.
•"BioLogos" expresses the belief that God is the source of
all life and that life expresses the will of God.
•BioLogos represents the view that evolutionary science
and religious faith co-exist in harmony.
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39. Harold (the dad) with grandfather Rev. Jessie baptizing
grandson Donovan.
40. Complementary Beauty of Science & Spirit
• I experience beauty
in both science and
religion.
• “If nature were not
beautiful, it would not
be worth knowing.”
Henri Poincare
• The emergent evolutionary
process produced homo
sapiens who perceive the
beauty of the natural world
as the result a Divine
Creator.
41. www.asa3.org
2014 Annual Confrence, July 24-28,
McMaster Univ, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Journal
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
42. II. RELIGION: Cosmos Emerged From Divine Consciousness
“Word (Logos) was God,” John 1:1
“Spirit of God,” Gen 1:2
I. SCIENCE: Human Consciousness Emerged from the Cosmos
Cosmos emerged from a hot Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago.
First Homo Sapiens in Africa, 200,000 years ago.
Searching for natural processes & laws that gave rise to
psyche.
III. RECONCILIATION of SCIENCE & RELIGION:
-Biologos: Evolutionary creation.
-Emergence of homo sapiens’ sense of Divine beauty.
-Complementary beauty of science’s how & spirit’s why.
Did Consciousness Emerge from Cosmos or Visa-Versa?
Paul H. Carr’s ASA Paper, 7/27/2014
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43. Religion: Helping or Hindering Science?
1.Religion hinders the development of science.
2.Religion helps
3.Religion both helps and hinders.
Reconciling Differences Between:
Region, Education, and Worldviews
WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP
44. SERENETY PRAYER, attributed to Reinhold Niehbuhr
O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed,
The courage to change what can be changed, and
the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.