[Dialogue] The Grand Design

[jlepps at pc.jaring.my]

Thanks very much, Paul.

This certainly places our discussion in a far more articulate vein. 
It's great to see this type of discussion still going on. I hope to 
spend much more time with it.

John

At 12:40 PM 5/20/2012, you wrote:
>I enjoyed the debate between Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams on 
>some of these questions:
><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQk4NfW7g0>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQk4NfW7g0
>
>Maybe it adds another dimension...?
>
>Paul
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>In a message dated 20/05/2012 19:18:12 GMT Daylight Time, 
>LAURELCG at aol.com writes:
>Jack,
>
>The Ground of Being that WAS before the big bang, and the 
>Evolutionary Impulse (Becoming) that started the big bang, is what 
>we've called God. (This I've gleaned from Andrew Cohen.) I agree it 
>is all intelligent, but our tiny brains cannot begin to understand 
>it. IT is the All, in the phrases, "All that is, is good." and "I am 
>One with All That Is." Science is about grappling to understand it. 
>Good scientists are usually in awe of what they're discovering. What 
>else would keep someone looking in a microscope all day every day 
>for years, or whatever laborious process is required in their 
>discipline? Scientists like Bryan Swimme and men of faith like 
>Thomas Berry sometimes collaborate to come up with inspired works, 
>like The Universe Story. This is all just my humble opinion, as is 
>the belief that the church, the cutting edge today, is the 
>evolutionary spirituality movement. Jean Houston is a recognized 
>leader of it and almost invariably ends her internet sessions with 
>"These are the times, we are the people."
>
> From the great central valley of California, the center of the Universe,
>Jann
>
>In a message dated 5/20/2012 10:57:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
>icabombay at igc.org writes:
>As to the "Grand Design", it is the contention of some that the 
>creative process, that which underlies all, is inherently 
>intelligent and that intelligence can be understood.
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