>>> In article
i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> BradGuth gmail.com> writes:>
>>>> On Sep 10, 8:12 pm, "jonathan"
write.instead.net> wrote:>>>>> God as the Emergent Process of Creation.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred
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>>>>> Stuart Kauffman
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>>>>> Abstract
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>>>>> "We have lived under the hegemony of the reductionistic scientific worldview
>>>>> since Galileo, Newton, and Laplace. In this view, the universe is meaningless,
>>>>> as Stephen Weinberg famously said, and organisms and a court of law are "nothing
>>>>> but" particles in morion. This scientific view is inadequate. Physicists are
>>>>> beginning to abandon reductionism in favor of emergence. Emergence, both
>>>>> epistemological and ontological, embraces the emergence of life and of agency.
>>>>> With agency comes meaning, value, and doing, beyond mere happenings. More
>>>>> organisms are conscious. None of this violates any laws of physics, but it
>>>>> cannot be reduced to physics. Emergence is real, and the tiger chasing the
>>>>> gazelle are real parts of the real universe.
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>>>>> We live, therefore, in an emergent universe. This emergence often is entirely
>>>>> unpredictable beforehand, from the evolution of novel functionalities in
>>>>> organisms to the evolution of the economy and human history. We are surrounded
>>>>> on all sides by a creativity that cannot even be prestated. Thus we have the
>>>>> first glimmerings of a new scientific worldview, beyond reductionism. In our
>>>>> universe emergence is real, and there is ceaseless, stunning creativity that has
>>>>> given rise to our biosphere, our humanity, and our history. We are partial
>>>>> co-creators of this emergent creativity.
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>>>>> It is our choice whether we use the God word. I believe it is wise to do so. 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, awesome
>>>>> creativity in the universe can help us construct the sacred and a global ethic
>>>>> to help shape the global civilization toward what we choose with the best of our
>>>>> limited wisdom."
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>>>>> limited wisdom.
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>>>> It is well enough mainstream accepted that there has been a good God
>>>> and a bad God.
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>>>> The well educated and otherwise technologically informed Cathars were
>>>> among the few trying their best intensions at keeping us in tune or
>>>> focused upon what a good God would have liked of us humans to strive
>>>> for.
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>>>> Obviously the Roman Catholic bad God knew how to kick serious butt,
>>>> and their Pope (aka commander and chief faith-based moron of that era)
>>>> did just that, setting up an example that clearly impressed Hitler,
>>>> and not otherwise having gone unnoticed by his white skinned Zionist
>>>> puppet masters as having a global domination plan of their very own.
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>>>> Hitler and of his physics and science company of Zionist goons plus
>>>> countless servitude minions treated those of their concentration camps
>>>> better off than rabbi Saul and Deco has treated far too many within
>>>> Usenet/newsgroups, and yet folks like Stuart Kauffman and yourself so
>>>> often keep entertaining our resident republican Godfather perverts as
>>>> though they are even slightly human.
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>>>> One thing for certain, your Eden should have no accommodations for the
>>>> likes of rabbi Saul unless given preferential status by way of
>>>> yourself. Do you really want the likes of Saul and other pretend-
>>>> Atheists as intellectual predatory perverts in your Eden?
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>>>> ~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG
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>>> KOOK FIGHT! KOOK FIGHT!!!
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>>> -- cary
>
>> Is your face stuck in your zipper? (apparently so)
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> No. Because here I am at work.
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> Whereas if I could do that, I'd never leave my room.
>
> -- cary
Your boss knows what you're doing with his/her network, on company
time none the less?
~ BG
