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Subject: Physics and spirituality: "A rapturous amazement at the harmony
of natural law" | Points of View - Physics Today
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:25:06 -0500
From: Sam Wormley
Newsgroups: sci.physics

http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_ed...of_natural_law

A physicist shares his conviction that scientific and religious views of the world are complementary and compatible.

With fear and trepidation, I approach the topic of physics and spirituality. To even consider physics and spirituality as a single topic—not two—may qualify as heresy. I have to wonder about public perception: If a physics instructor confesses to holding religious views, is that alarming, or subversive, or even reckless?

On May 18, 4:26*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
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Subject: Physics and spirituality: "A rapturous amazement at the harmony

Bull**** always slides downhill.

On May 18, 3:26*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
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Subject: Physics and spirituality: "A rapturous amazement at the harmony

of natural law" | Points of View - Physics Today
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:25:06 -0500
From: Sam Wormley
Newsgroups: sci.physics

http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_ed...w/physics_and_...

A physicist shares his conviction that scientific and religious views of the world are complementary and compatible.

With fear and trepidation, I approach the topic of physics and spirituality. To even consider physics and spirituality as a single topic not two may qualify as heresy. I have to wonder about public perception: If a physics instructor confesses to holding religious views, is that alarming, or subversive, or even reckless?

Fear and trepidation indeed !,it is more like an empiricist welfare
society and an incredibly anti-competitive peer review process which
aggressively ignores the basic facts which constitute the flow of
information between planetary dynamics and terrestrial effects and
that guy's idea of spirituality is chanting voodoo and more of a self-
congratulatory spiel than anything else.

Empiricists look for the easy answers and reject the obstacles of good
and evil that tend to obscure what faith actually is - the background
against which all things are conceived and played out.Few men have
taken the journey to consider scales of time and space larger than
that of their daily existence,not the facile creation of worlds within
the imagination that are indistinguishable from science fiction but
the very heart of the connection between the individual and the
Universal.These come in glimpses to the decent and honest heart and
the determined and courageous mind,always have and always will -

"No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of
thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts
at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his
own soul. The utter impossibility of any one's soul feeling itself
inferior to another; the intense, overwhelming dissatisfaction and
rebellion at the thought; -- these, with the omniprevalent aspirations
at perfection, are but the spiritual, coincident with the material,
struggles towards the original Unity -- are, to my mind at least, a
species of proof far surpassing what Man terms demonstration, that no
one soul is inferior to another -- that nothing is, or can be,
superior to any one soul -- that each soul is, in part, its own God --
its own Creator: -- in a word, that God -- the material and spiritual
God -- now exists solely in the diffused Matter and Spirit of the
Universe; and that the regathering of this diffused Matter and Spirit
will be but the re-constitution of the purely Spiritual and Individual
God.In this view, and in this view alone, we comprehend the riddles of
Divine Injustice -- of Inexorable Fate. In this view alone the
existence of Evil becomes intelligible; but in this view it becomes
more -- it becomes endurable. Our souls no longer rebel at a Sorrow
which we ourselves have imposed upon ourselves, in furtherance of our
own purposes -- with a view -- if even with a futile view -- to the
extension of our own Joy." Allan Poe Eureka

How many here define themselves by what they hate,that is such an easy
thing to do however when we see in the flow of details between
astronomy and terrestrial sciences how one plays through the other,we
elevate ourselves to the Universal and descend the Universal down to
the individual - that is what it means to be religious ,that is what
it means to be scientific or a
composer,artist,writer,explorer,inventor and any human endeavor that
loves God as one thing and all things.

Bull**** always slides downhill.