To tickle your funny bone this holiday weekend:
Sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look.
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Fascinating talk by Guy Consolmagno, Vatican astronomer, discussing science and religion:
Click here for the full hour long program.
Guy Consolmagno believes that science and religion should work together rather than against one another. In a 2006 interview he said:
“Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.”
Hmmm, that is a clunky version of what Abdu’l-Baha eloquently said many years ago:
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
Is it possible Guy Consolmagno has read Abdu’l-Baha?
A recent article from the International Herald Tribune on the increase in church attendance that coincides with the economic troubles:
The sudden crush of worshipers packing the small evangelical Shelter Rock Church in Manhasset, New York – a Long Island town of yacht clubs and hedge fund managers – forced the pastor to set up an overflow room with closed-circuit TV and 100 folding chairs, which have been filled for six consecutive Sundays.
In Seattle, the Mars Hill Church, one of the fastest-growing evangelical churches in the country, grew to 7,000 members this fall, up 1,000 in a year. At the Life Christian Church in West Orange, New Jersey, prayer requests have doubled – almost all of them aimed at getting or keeping jobs.
This reminds me of the Pew survey which linked wealth to religiosity. We may be sliding up and to the left on that curve.
Can I get an Amen ?
