Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Science / Religion???

So -- good book - The Great Partnership by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

AND a thought I had... while listening to a podcast where two people, one a scientist and one a novelist were talking. Podcast site is at:

http://www.onbeing.org/

Specifically: 
An American novelist and a Brazilian astrophysicist are both passionate about the majesty of science. They connect discoveries about the cosmos, new ways of understanding the mind, and our origins.

MARILYNNE ROBINSON + MARCELO GLEISER ON THE MYSTERY WE ARE - November 8, 2012
What do a fiction writer and an astrophysicist have in common? Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson, together with physicist Marcelo Gleiser, connect dots between the cosmos, our minds, and all the ways we discover the story of where we came from.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/the-mystery-we-are/4910
to listen to the one I am talking about. 


( I want to get a book he wrote a while ago...:

Gleiser, Marcelo.The dancing universe : from creation myths to the big bang /It is a PSE... at UCD

Is it at the public library? -- and YES Davis PL has it at:
                                    523.1 GLE  )


There is a need to clarify some terms and to use various terms appropriately in the knowledge areas where they can be answered.

HOW and/or What are science questions

WHY is a religious question.

Explaining vs Describing.. 

Measuring vs ?????? (feeling?)

and so on.... 

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