Roger Trigg, acting Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science at the University of Oxford, is understandably very happy. The centre has been recently awarded a grant for a three year programme to determine why mankind embraces God. The programme is expected to spend nearly two million pounds while involving anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and academics in associated studies
, research and debate. While one basic aim would seem to be to find out whether belief in a divine being is a part of mankind's makeup, Trigg is quoted by 'The Hindu' today as having admitted that 'there are a lot of issues'.
A conference in July announced elsewhere,
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038/Conferenceinfo/General.html
could be for starters.
I vaguely recall reading a blog on a related issue where the blogger insists we are 'hardwired' to believe. Fortunately, the blogger in question has control over the circuitry; otherwise , he would be believing too, like a number of us.
Wonder whether anything even vaguely non-Abrahamic will manage to sneak into the Oxford programme or the conference?
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written by P. Desikan, 2008-02-22 21:55:53
The sentence quoted from Dawkins shows already that something is being revealed to him without his recognizing it as a revelation. When he is ready, he will know, if he is so destined.
Regards. Partha.
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written by dwai, 2008-02-22 16:29:44
I don't see the Olympian gods or Jesus coming down and dying on the Cross as worthy of that grandeur. They strike me as parochial. If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.â€
Dear Partha,
Indeed it was a thought-provoking dialog between yourself and Sri Narayan. I add to the response of Brahman the response of Tao. Mr. Dawkins seems to have not heard of these, or perhaps heard of them but preferred to ignore them, and thus not risk marginalizing his argumentation?
What do you think?
Warm Regards,
Dwai
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written by P. Desikan, 2008-02-21 22:35:34
Wonder whether you may find interest in a debate between me and MKV Narayan, which he chose to publish in Sulekha after getting my concurrence?
I was in Bangalore at that time.
This has to do with Dawkins as well.
Warm regards. Partha.
http://mkvnarayan.sulekha.com/blog/post/2006/11/open-thoughts-1-god-and-science.htm
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written by dwai, 2008-02-21 17:15:33
How can that become a "refutation" under such circumstances?
I see your reference to "Whether any non-abrahamic system will enter the conf". I would venture to say they wont because they don't conform to the "rules" that have been pre-ordained.
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Interesting article and comments.
Yes, some people seem to be in total control of their circuitry.:-))
The way men of Science bother about marginalisation makes me think their brand of Science is another belief system, one that doesnt encourage questions.
Regards
Ns