Dovina9 May 2008

I attended Stephen Hawking speaking on philosophy at Caltech recently, if you can call twitching his eyelid speaking. “Nothing can be known except through science,” he said. And when someone asked what existed before the Bang, he said, “That can never be known.”

Now we have the Higgs Field, a kind of universal molasses all particles slog through, if we can even describe them as particles. It replaces the ether that light used to flow though before we learned it did not exist.

My point is not “the necessity of Religion [derived from] from the inevitability of Mystery.” Nor should we “make up an explanation, or put faith in someone else's explanation.” I am not convinced that “if there is some grand scheme, some meaningful wider context to our actions, then any such scheme is unknowable.”

“What is easier to believe? That there was always something or that there was once nothing? ... Christianity says that creation has a beginning, middle and end. The Greeks claimed that creation is a timeless process. Both are correct. All that is created and is therefore individual has a beginning and an end; but there is no universal beginning and end.” John Fowles

“This underlying unity of reality (God) is central … the future of theology and our understanding of 'God', to explore the properties of this Space we all find ourselves existing in.” Geoff Haselhurst, Karene Howie at http://www.spaceandmotion.com/

“From his present dissatisfaction, man reasons that there was some catastrophic wreck in the past, before which he was happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land, a land without conflict. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage; this myth lies deeper than religious faith.” John Fowles