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CHARLES TOWNES

PHYSICIST AND CHRISTIAN

He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the principles that underlie the laser. "As a religious person, I strongly sense. . .the presence and actions of a creative being far beyond myself and yet always personal and close by," he says. Now at the University of California, Berkeley, Townes believes that recent discoveries in cosmology reveal "a universe that fits religious views"--specifically, that "somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe."

WILLIAM STOEGER

ASTRONOMER AND JESUIT PRIEST

Stoeger, who joined the Jesuits at 17, now teaches at the University of Arizona and is a member of the Vatican Observatory. "I did have one conflict between science and religion, in sixth or seventh grade," he says. "I got a book on paleontology from my uncle Don, so I read it only at night when no-one else was around. This conflict [between evolution and Genesis] was wonderfully resolved in high school," Stoeger says, when a priest showed him that the Bible could be read metaphorically.

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  • Posted By: blatzrox @ 01/29/2009 12:39:07 AM

    I think the earth is way too complex for our scientists to explain. There is definately an order to the universe, and how did something come from nothing?? That question has plagued me all of my life. But God says in the Bible that we are not to know until His time, & that's where the faith for me comes in. I believe because I also believe Darwin is wrong about evolution. I believe because of certain factors, some things may have " morphed into something a bit different. But man has always looked human, even if neanderthal. There is a God, my heart just tells me there is.

  • Posted By: VenuSecret @ 01/25/2009 1:55:47 AM

    Today we have amazing scientists, who have made spectacular discoveries. With the help of technology, we are able to learn a lot about the creations on earth. Technology helps us see the unseen and learn the unknown.
    Now, think about this for a minute??? go back in time???to a time when there was no technology???more than 1400 years ago to be a little more specific. Now that you???re there, I want you to imagine what it was like not having the technology we have today, what it must have been like to be guessing the creation on earth. Looking up at the sky, and at the ground around you??? back then the people thought that the earth was flat and that the mountains kept the sky up. The people had no idea that the earth was round??? that the mountains were like pegs holding the earth firmly, and they didn???t know that beyond the sky was a universe, one where other planets existed and floated in harmony in an invisible orbit around the sun.
    The verses in the Qur???an, which was sent down more than 1400 years ago, explains these facts??? the Qur???an gives scientific explanations of the creation of the earth, the steps in which the human was created in the mother???s womb, the levels of the sky, which blocks out certain harmful rays from the sun??? and more???
    But one of my favorite verses is the one which talks about two bodies of sea???s which are separated with an invisible barrier??? one of them is more salient than the other??? no one knew which sea this verse was describing, but when one scientist went to the Mediterranean sea, he found that the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean sea were separated with an invisible barrier??? one was more salient than the other??? another man told him that this was described in the Qur???an more than 1400 years ago???
    Here???s the verse to that explanation:
    He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them they do not break through. (Qur'an, 55:19-20)
    Here is a link http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.html which has more scientific facts which brings religion and science together as one. There is a God, and he???s only one God, Moses is our Prophet, Jesus is our Prophet, and Mohammed is our Prophet??? all of them are messengers of God, none are to be worshipped beside God. Only God is to be worshipped alone.

  • Posted By: VenuSecret @ 01/25/2009 1:55:20 AM

    Today we have amazing scientists, who have made spectacular discoveries. With the help of technology, we are able to learn a lot about the creations on earth. Technology helps us see the unseen and learn the unknown.
    Now, think about this for a minute??? go back in time???to a time when there was no technology???more than 1400 years ago to be a little more specific. Now that you???re there, I want you to imagine what it was like not having the technology we have today, what it must have been like to be guessing the creation on earth. Looking up at the sky, and at the ground around you??? back then the people thought that the earth was flat and that the mountains kept the sky up. The people had no idea that the earth was round??? that the mountains were like pegs holding the earth firmly, and they didn???t know that beyond the sky was a universe, one where other planets existed and floated in harmony in an invisible orbit around the sun.
    The verses in the Qur???an, which was sent down more than 1400 years ago, explains these facts??? the Qur???an gives scientific explanations of the creation of the earth, the steps in which the human was created in the mother???s womb, the levels of the sky, which blocks out certain harmful rays from the sun??? and more???
    But one of my favorite verses is the one which talks about two bodies of sea???s which are separated with an invisible barrier??? one of them is more salient than the other??? no one knew which sea this verse was describing, but when one scientist went to the Mediterranean sea, he found that the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean sea were separated with an invisible barrier??? one was more salient than the other??? another man told him that this was described in the Qur???an more than 1400 years ago???
    Here???s the verse to that explanation:
    He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them they do not break through. (Qur'an, 55:19-20)
    Here is a link http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.html which has more scientific facts which brings religion and science together as one. There is a God, and he???s only one God, Moses is our Prophet, Jesus is our Prophet, and Mohammed is our Prophet??? all of them are messengers of God, none are to be worshipped beside God. Only God is to be worshipped alone.

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