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EVOLVING CONTINENTS

EVOLVING CONTINENTS. Session Six SU SPRING 2008. YIPEE!. My biases and course goals. Biases: I have not hesitated to expose religious and scientific parochiality, or say how I was making up my own mind. Goals: to re-frame the questions and review a variety of Mindscapes.

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EVOLVING CONTINENTS

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  1. EVOLVING CONTINENTS Session Six SU SPRING 2008 Creation and Cosmos

  2. YIPEE! Creation and Cosmos

  3. My biases and course goals Biases: I have not hesitated to expose religious and scientific parochiality, or say how I was making up my own mind. Goals: to re-frame the questions and review a variety of Mindscapes. Creation and Cosmos

  4. Five Mindscapes of STORY Sub-sets of Meta-narrative • Conflict—Record—Hand signals • Contrast—Chronicle—Telegraph • Consolidation—Account/Telephone • Conversation—Sketch—Cell Phone • Confirmation—Epic—I-Phone Adapted from John F. Haught and Ian Barbour Creation and Cosmos

  5. Creation as COSMIC EPIC EPIC: the emergent Divine Matrix of interdisciplinary, multi-level assertions EPIC addresses all four issues between Science and Religion—beginnings, chance and determinism, evolution, and human nature Creation and Cosmos

  6. Epic Model and God-talk? The EPIC model addresses all four necessary model-aspects: current data, coherence, scope and fertility. Homo Sapiens are viewed as God the “Creator’s Co-creators.” God and humans are becoming or “emergent.” Lutheran Theologian Phil Hefner Creation and Cosmos

  7. Emergent God-talk “Who are you?” Moses asks in Exodus 3:14. “I will be what I will be…” God answers him. Creation and Cosmos

  8. Divine Matrix (aka Cosmic EPIC) Definition of matrix: noun:  an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb) One Look Dictionary (online) Creation and Cosmos

  9. Darrel, Don and Harry at the Oscars Creation and Cosmos

  10. “Close but no cigar!” W.C. Fields Creation and Cosmos

  11. Cumulo-nimbus Super cell Creation and Cosmos

  12. Supernova Cosmic Fireball Cloud Creation and Cosmos

  13. Hawking’s “Fire…” Issue "Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the question of why there should be a universe for the model to describe."Stephen Hawking Creation and Cosmos

  14. Hawking’s “fire in the equation” Where’s the “bling bling?” Rapper B.G. Or “Bada Bling Bada Boom?” The Sopranos Creation and Cosmos

  15. Prometheus Bringer of Fire Creation and Cosmos

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  17. Oppenheimer "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.“ July 1945 words at “The Bomb” site Creation and Cosmos

  18. The Many and the One Voice Creation and Cosmos

  19. The Chickadee Creation and Cosmos

  20. John Hick John Hick argues a credible religious hypothesis must account for the fact, of which "we have become irreversibly aware in the present century, as the result of anthropological, sociological, and psychological studies and the work of philosophy of language,” that there is no one universal and invariable pattern for the interpretation of human experience, but rather a range of significantly different patterns or conceptual schemes "which have developed within the major cultural streams." And when considered in this light, a "pluralistic theory becomes inevitable" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Online) Creation and Cosmos

  21. Greatest Threat to Religion The single greatest threat to religion is the issue of “other religions,” not scientific discoveries (Freud, Marx and Darwin). The flashpoint between religions (dogmatic traditional-oriented) has ignited religious and socio-cultural wars worldwide. Creation and Cosmos

  22. Darrel’s Daffy-nitions Pluralistic—property of many yet different Inclusivity—embracing all disparate units Diversity—owning variety or variant forms Multi-cultural—mixing of varied cultures Bio-diversity—having many life forms Matrix—all-purpose encompassing pattern Creation and Cosmos

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  24. Get “Plumped” Denial and religious imperialism have deepened the gap between religions. An Emergent Pluralism (plumped to use Isaiah Berlin’s word) offers an opportunity for a “re-frame.” Creation and Cosmos

  25. Pluralistic and not relativistic Isaiah Berlin (died 1997) argued for Objective Pluralism—a case for “universal values” Creation and Cosmos

  26. Medieval View of Nature/God 1. Fixed or Immutable 2. Teleological or Purpose-driven 3. Substance/Reality (what you see) 4. Anthropic/Hierarchical/”Planet-istic” 5. Dual (Spirit and Matter) 6. Kingdom Metaphor (Kingdom of God) Ian Barbour Religion and Science Creation and Cosmos

  27. Newtonian View of Nature/God 1. Controlled/Natural Law 2. Determined (Limited re-arrangements) 3. Atomistic/Comprehended in particulars 4. Reductive/Bound to and by laws 5. Dualistic (Descartes—mind and body) 6. Machine Metaphor (Natura et Deus ex machina) Ian Barbour Religion and Science Creation and Cosmos

  28. 21st Century View of Nature/God 1. Emergent (evolving) giga-metaphor 2. Interplay of law and chance/Dynamic confluence 3. Interdependent/Intercultural domains 4. Organic/Holistic/Living Earth concept 5. Multi-level connectivities 6. Trans-communal (historico-conditioned deep conversations) Ian Barbour Religion and Science Creation and Cosmos

  29. Ian Barbour, Encylcopedist Creation and Cosmos

  30. A. N. Whitehead, Philosopher His process philosophy opposes any static view of the universe and our history. Creation and Cosmos

  31. Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead sees God in cosmological terms as an "actual occasion" functioning within nature, reflective of "the eternal urge of desire" that works "strongly and quietly by love," to guide the course of things within the world into "the creative advance into novelty.” Stanford University Online Philosophy website Creation and Cosmos

  32. Charles Hartshorne, Theologian He did his best work late in life! “When I passed my 80th birthday, I began saying longevity is my secret weapon.” Creation and Cosmos

  33. Does EPIC meet MODEL criteria? • Data dependent—basis of all discovery • Coherence—consistent with other accepted theories • Capacity—comprehensive enough to meet current need • Fertile—sparks imagination and leads to other discoveries Creation and Cosmos

  34. Christocentric Pluralism John Cobb advocated a theology that managed to be both Christo-centric and pluralistic in its approach to other faiths. He proclaimed that Christo-centrism is rooted in Sophia, or divine wisdom, which is the essence of God who is embodied in Christ. He asserted that it requires a Christ as the center of history, but not the whole of history… Wikipedia article Creation and Cosmos

  35. Christocentric Pluralist Creation and Cosmos

  36. Thoughts of Newton and Darwin Creation and Cosmos

  37. TS Eliot We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time. Creation and Cosmos

  38. Biggest knock on Science …are the blind spots of the domain to the ethical implications of research and the moral dimensions of its technology? Science’s urgent challenge is to address its use and abuse by political and ideological agendas? Creation and Cosmos

  39. Therefore…in my opinion We stand at the horizon peering into a future of extraordinary and robust opportunities for science and religion to work together for the benefit of the whole non-human and human cosmos and creation? Creation and Cosmos

  40. Checkers, not Chess Creation and Cosmos

  41. Emergent EPIC is post-Newtonian Creation and Cosmos

  42. Newton’s Discipleship Creation and Cosmos

  43. Stretch of Utah Highway Creation and Cosmos

  44. The Wise-Fool “I think I’ll go home.” Creation and Cosmos

  45. Thanks You are a fantastic bunch of students. Darrel, Don and Harry Creation and Cosmos

  46. Following SLIDES: The next slides are supplementary to the whole course but especially the last session. Read on… Creation and Cosmos

  47. Steven Weinberg Breakthrough in Big Bang’s earliest nano-moments—First Three Minutes: Creation and Cosmos

  48. Paul Davies--Physicist Davies Collins Houghton Creation and Cosmos

  49. NOT ALL-MEN’S CLUB Lecturer on genetic science: Celia Deane-Drummond (also has a doctorate in theology!) Creation and Cosmos

  50. Harvey Cox November ’06 Interview But science as science cannot make decisions about how its findings should be applied -- that is not within the scientific method -- or which project to take on next. If it's going to cost $20 million, should you do it or should you not do it is a question, as science, it can't decide on. The thing that we (Gould and Cox) agreed on is that when religion and science both do their thing and don't step over the boundary and try to do what the other is doing, it can be a mutually enhancing process. Creation and Cosmos

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