– Michael Heller, 2008 Templeton Prize winner
But doesn't this imply that religion offers something less than knowledge, like maybe only subjective points of view and feeling?
Maybe I should read this guy. Surely he's not dumping religion into the subjective quagmire.
See Michael Heller: a thinker who bridges science and theology
Templeton Prize announcement.
UPDATE: I've read Heller's 3 page statement available on the Templeton Prize site. A few quotes:.
I invariably wonder how educated people could be so blind not to see that science does nothing else but explores God’s creation.
Within the all-comprising Mind of God what we call chance and random events is well composed into the symphony of creation.
The question on ultimate causality is translated into another of Leibniz’s questions: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” (from his Principles of Nature and Grace). When asking this question, we are not asking about a cause like all other causes. We are asking about the root of all possible causes.
When thinking about science as deciphering the Mind of God, we should not forget that science is also a collective product of human brains,. . . . we are an essential part of the Greatest Mystery of all – of the entanglement of the Human Mind with the Mind of God.
My interest is piqued in his article, also available on the Templeton Prize site, Chaos, Probability and the Comprehensibility of the World.
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