Post by bjorn on Sept 13, 2012 8:07:04 GMT
I note the Prosblogion is discussing physicist Sean Carroll on God and Modern Physics - prosblogion.ektopos.com/archives/2012/09/physicist-sean-.html linking to his article at preposterousuniverse.com/writings/dtung/ to be published in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity.
As I commented there, one issue deserving more comments is that part of his argument depends on "God of the Gap"-thinking being the norm or part of some important arguments in theistic natural philosophy. E.g.
"Over the past five hundred years, the progress of science has worked to strip away God's roles in the world. He isn't needed to keep things moving, or to develop the complexity of living creatures, or to account for the existence of the universe."
and
"We can't be sure that a fully naturalist understanding of cosmology is forthcoming, but at the same time there is no reason to doubt it. Two thousand years ago, it was perfectly reasonable to invoke God as an explanation for natural phenomena; now, we can do much better."
Even if this may be a fairly standard belief among scientists, I hope the book does discuss this idea (which I think is mostly a misconception) and doesn't just accept it on faith.
As I commented there, one issue deserving more comments is that part of his argument depends on "God of the Gap"-thinking being the norm or part of some important arguments in theistic natural philosophy. E.g.
"Over the past five hundred years, the progress of science has worked to strip away God's roles in the world. He isn't needed to keep things moving, or to develop the complexity of living creatures, or to account for the existence of the universe."
and
"We can't be sure that a fully naturalist understanding of cosmology is forthcoming, but at the same time there is no reason to doubt it. Two thousand years ago, it was perfectly reasonable to invoke God as an explanation for natural phenomena; now, we can do much better."
Even if this may be a fairly standard belief among scientists, I hope the book does discuss this idea (which I think is mostly a misconception) and doesn't just accept it on faith.
