{"id":847,"date":"2003-03-03T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T03:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/03\/the-cold-reaches-of-heaven\/"},"modified":"2003-03-03T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T03:45:03","slug":"the-cold-reaches-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/03\/the-cold-reaches-of-heaven","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Reaches of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sojourn\u00ader Mag\u00ada\u00adzine<\/a> just ran an arti\u00adcle about Nobel lau\u00adre\u00adate William Phillips called The Cold Reach\u00ades of Heav\u00aden<\/a>. Phillips is a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, and he has some\u00adthing inter\u00adest\u00ading to say about the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between sci\u00adence and reli\u00adgion:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not an anom\u00adaly,\u201d he says emphat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly. \u201cIn fact, I would say that if you were to ask, the major\u00adi\u00adty of physi\u00adcists would answer that they believe in God in one form or anoth\u00ader. Maybe not in exact\u00adly the same way that I do, because I believe in a per\u00adson\u00adal God, but God in one form or anoth\u00ader.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

in a lat\u00ader sec\u00adtion he com\u00adments:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I want to know how the uni\u00adverse went through its stages of devel\u00adop\u00adment, I ask obser\u00adva\u00adtion\u00adal astron\u00ado\u00admy and the\u00ado\u00adret\u00adi\u00adcal cos\u00admol\u00ado\u00adgy,\u201d says Phillips. \u201cIf I want to know why are we here, why is there a uni\u00adverse in the first place, or what is the nature of my rela\u00adtion\u00adship to my Cre\u00adator, I turn to the Bible. But when I study cos\u00admol\u00ado\u00adgy as a sci\u00adence, when I study physics, one of the things that I learn is that there are very clear, beau\u00adti\u00adful\u00adly sim\u00adple laws that describe almost every\u00adthing that I observe. I see that kind of sim\u00adplic\u00adi\u00adty and beau\u00adty, and I think, this is a put-up job, this did\u00adn\u2019t hap\u00adpen by chance.\u201d Phillips laughs.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a way in which sci\u00adence informs my faith. I don\u2019t want to com\u00adpart\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adize them, but I am clear that there are ques\u00adtions that are well-posed to sci\u00adence and ques\u00adtions that are well-posed to reli\u00adgion. But they\u2019re not com\u00adplete\u00adly sep\u00ada\u00adrate enti\u00adties.\u201d<\/p>\n

FYI: I\u2019ve updat\u00aded our list of famous sci\u00aden\u00adtists who are Chris\u00adt\u00adian<\/a> with a link to the arti\u00adcle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sojourn\u00ader Mag\u00ada\u00adzine just ran an arti\u00adcle about Nobel lau\u00adre\u00adate William Phillips called The Cold Reach\u00ades of Heav\u00aden. Phillips is a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, and he has some\u00adthing inter\u00adest\u00ading to say about the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between sci\u00adence and reli\u00adgion: \u201cI\u2019m not an anom\u00adaly,\u201d he says emphat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly. \u201cIn fact, I would say that if you were to ask, the major\u00adi\u00adty \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThe Cold Reach\u00ades of Heav\u00aden\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}