Re: [asa] Study claims that Parallel Universes really do exist.

You're right that Davies is not at all a traditional theist. In his book God and the New Physics he said, "It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion." His topic for the symposium is "Cosmic Jackpot: Why our Universe is Just Right for Life." (That's also the title of a recent book of his.) He knows the science & is interested in issues related to related, albeit hardly orthodox, & has always seemed to me to be civil about such matters, unlike some folks. I doubt that he'll proselytize heavily for pantheism but we could deal with that - we're big boys & girls. Anyway, I get the last word as far as formal presentations are concerned :)

Shalom
George
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    Paul Davies, who has written extensively on cosmology, anthropic principles, multiverse, life in the universe &c (& is a Templeton Prize winner) will be the main speaker & I'll be giving one of the presentations as well.

  George, this is interesting. The last I heard of Paul Davies he was in a video of him speaking at a conference that was strategizing how to overthrow religion in the civilized world. He couched his statements that, although he believes in a God/god along the lines of Spinoza and Einstein, he was sympathetic with the goals of the conference with respect to traditional religions. If he is now speaking at a Lutheran conference intended to encourage believing scientists, then where is he personally on these issues?

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