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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

God enough

We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 07:16 AM

    @ Michaelben

    Your posts are always thoughtful, but you still make the common mistake of assuming that only a universe inhabited by "god" (pick your definition) can have "meaning" for people - theists or atheists.

    I just don't buy that. My world is filled with meaning. Love, awe, wonder, mystery...all these things mean things to me and enrich my life immensely. They are very much a part of me, not some supernatural (again, pick your definition) otherness that somehow exists but doesn't exist in but not in above or not above it all.

    And to claim that a theist's view is "better" because it believes in something beyond the individual is nonsensical. I know the universe at large is much, much, more than me. It is that awareness, and the unending details revealed by science that continues to enrich that awareness, that adds a depth to my awe far deeper than any abstract wordplay about divine beings.

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