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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories plus a few other things equaled god. And by that all they mea...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God