> God as the Emergent Process of Creation.
>
> A pioneer of complexity science, Stuart A. Kauffman, M.D., is
> Chief Scientific Officer and Chairman of the Board, Bios Group Inc.
> Since 1985, he has served as a consultant to Los Alamos National
> Laboratory, and from 1986 to 1998 as Professor at the Santa Fe
> Institute. Major areas of research include Developmental Genetics,
> Theoretical Biology, Evolution, and the Origin of Life. He was
> awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
> and The Herbert A. Simon Award.
>
> Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred
>
> Stuart Kauffman
>
> Abstract
>
> "We have lived under the hegemony of the reductionistic scientific worldview
> since Galileo, Newton, and Laplace. In this view, the universe is meaningless, ...

>>
>> God
>> can be our shared name for the true creativity in the natural universe.
>> Such a
>> view invites a new sense of the sacred, as those aspects of the
>> creativity in
>> the universe that we deem worthy of holding sacred. We are not logically
>> forced
>> to this view. Yet a global civilization, hopefully persistently diverse
>> and
>> creative, is emerging. I believe we need a shared view of God, a fully
>> natural
>> God, to orient our lives. We need a shared view of the sacred that is
>> open to
>> slow evolution, because rigidity in our view of the sacred violates how
>> our most
>> precious values evolve and invites ethical hegemony. We need a shared
>> global
>> ethic beyond our materialism. I believe a sense of God as the natural, ...

>"BradGuth" gmail.com> wrote in message news:aee83500-96e9-4004-

>>>
>>> God
>>> can be our shared name for the true creativity in the natural universe.
>>> Such a
>>> view invites a new sense...

>

> How nice. Now, tell us: do we pray to this God, or not??
>

> G.
>

>
> Or better yet, which countries do we invade to satisfy its blood lust?
>
> Ben

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:38:04 +0100, "GordHnotGordB" tht.com> wrote:
>

>> "BradGuth" gmail.com> wrote in message news:aee83500-96e9-4004-

>>>> God
>>>> can be our shared name for the true creativity in the natural universe.
>>>> Such a
>>>> view invites a new sense of the sacred, as those aspects of the
>>>> creativity in
>>>> the universe that we deem worthy of holding sacred. We are not logically
>>>> forced
>>>> to this view. Yet a global civilization, hopefully persistently diverse
>>>> and
>>>> creative, is emerging. I believe we need a shared view of God, a fully
>>>> natural
>>>> God, to orient our lives. We need a shared view of the sacred that is
>>>> open to
>>>> slow evolution, because rigidity in our view of the sacred violates how
>>>> our most
>>>> precious values evolve and invites ethical hegemony. We need a shared ...

>
> "Ben Kaufman" pobox.com> wrote in
> message news:m1ejc49pgqfrvsqpvekabf4cj4mpi214d5@4ax.com...
>
>

>>
>> Or better yet, which countries do we invade to satisfy its blood lust?
>>
>> Ben

>
>
> This God would have democracy and freedom 'invade' us all.
>
>
>

> Ben Kaufman wrote:

>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:38:04 +0100, "GordHnotGordB" tht.com> wrote:
>>

>>> "BradGuth" gmail.com> wrote in message news:aee83500-96e9-4004-

>>>>> God
>>>>> can be our shared name for the true creativity in the natural universe.
>>>>> Such a
>>>>> view invites a new sense of the sacred, as those aspects of the
>>>>> creativity in
>>>>> the universe that we deem worthy of holding sacred. We are not logically
>>>>> forced
>>>>> to this view. Yet a global civilization, hopefully persistently diverse
>>>>> and
>>>>> creative, is emerging. I believe we need a shared view of God, a fully
>>>>> natural
>>>>> God, to orient our lives. We need a shared view of the sacred that is
>>>>> open to
>>>>> slow evolution, because rigidity in our view of the sacred violates how
>>>>> our most ...