Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

Every civilisation has its own creation story.

Once there was nothing. No space--no time.

Physics is stuck.

All traces of the original enigmatic building blocks is lost. We hope the LHC will bridge this profound gap in our knowledge.

The circumference of the machine is 27 kilometers.

It's way beyond anything we have ever had before.

Physicists are searching for every better ways to torture matter.

If we can find the Higgs Bosun we will be a step nearer to understanding the universe.

It's left us wondering if we know what we are doing.

Will we make a black hole? And everthing vanish instantaneously.

If we fail it proves the God particle doesn't exist and that there's something in atomic physics we don't understand.

Nobody can make a prediction we can test. It's like philosophy and religion.

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Treatment in the community it looked like to me. Patrick Moore on kinnikinik. Mainlined.

If it represents our "need to know", as he insisted, then Genesis looks a damned sight cheaper. But who wants it cheaper eh? That is unbusinesslike.

And Genesis has the great advantage of a capacity to erect a system of ethics and morality on which that lot hasn't.

It struck me in the pub later that the government has a problem of what to do with these extremely high IQ people who have kept a load of professors in buns and cakes all their adult lives as they are unfit for any rational purpose.

Sticking them 100ft down in Geneva to dream their dreams seems as humane a solution as there is.

It's a religion Steve.

"Wonderful book, Frank," he said.

"A fairy tale of religion," I said, "the development of a national conscience."

"Not quite that, Frank," he said gravely, "it's its truth that impresses me."

"Truth?" I questioned.

"Yes, Frank," and the fine eyes laughed. "It begins, you know, with a man and woman in a garden and naturally it ends with Revelations."

You're missing a lot Steve.

The wonderful age in which we live--this twentieth century with its X-rays that enable us to see through the skin and flesh of men, and to study the workings of their organs and muscles and nerves--has brought a new spirit into the world, a spirit of fidelity to fact, and with it a new and higher ideal of life and art, which must of necessity change and transform all the conditions of existence, and in time modify the almost immutable nature of man. For this new spirit, this love of the fact and of truth, this passion for reality will do away with the foolish fears and futile hopes which have fretted the childhood of our race, and will slowly but surely establish on broad foundations the Kingdom of Man upon Earth. Fot that is the meaning and purpose of the change which is now coming over the world. The faiths and convictions of twenty centuries are passing away and the forms and institutions of a hundred generations of men are dissolving before us like the baseless fabric of a dream. A new morality is already shaping itself in the spirit; a morality based not on guesswork and on fancies; but on ascertained laws of moral health ; a scientific morality belonging not to statics, like the morality of the Jews, but to dynamics, and so fitting the nature of each individual person. Even now conscience with its prohibitions is fading out of life, evolving into a more profound consciousness of ourselves and others, with multiplied incitements to wise living. The old religious asceticism with its hatred of the body is dead; the servile acceptance of conditions of life and even of natural laws is seen to be vicious; it is of the nobility of man to be insatiate in desire and to rebel against limiting conditions; it is the property of his intelligence to constrain even the laws of nature to the attainment of this ideal.

Already we are proud of being students, investigators, servants of truth, and we leave the great names of demigods and heroes a little contemptuously to the men of bygone times. As student-artists we are no longer content with the outward presentment and form of men: we want to discover the protean vanities, greeds and aspirations of men, and to lay bare, as with a scalpel, the hidden motives and springs of action. We dream of an art that shall take into account the natural daily decay and up-building of cell-life; the wars that go on in the blood; the fevers of the brain; the creeping paralysis of nerve-exhaustion; above all, we must be able even now from a few bare facts, to recreate a man and make him live and love again for the reader, just as the biologist from a few scattered bones can reconstruct some prehistoric bird or fish or mammal.