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New worldviews of a universe throbbing with life
The Lesson:
We inhabit a universe throbbing with life.
Everything changes:
planets, stars and galaxies -
atoms, molecules and cells -
flowers, trees and people.
We come, we go. Everything comes, everything goes.
There is life here. There is love here . . . and mysteries.
It’s natural. It’s astonishing. It’s even beautiful.
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Our Task:
Today we live in a world of GPS and cell phones, computers and DNA.
Our footprints are on the Moon.
New journeys, new dreams, require new worldviews.
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The stone age wordview is gone. Religion's stone age worldview, the three layer cake with gods above, humans in the middle, and devils below - is all gone. The puppet master hiding above the clouds, pulling the strings of the universe - is also gone. Our world now reaches far beyond the clouds and spans atoms, planets and stars, even galaxies.
Long ago, friends asked me, then a naive young priest and scientist, to help them reconcile religion with modern knowledge and science. Surveying the last 500 years of science since Columbus sailed, we set out to build a new worldview. We not only learned new things but sometimes re-learned the value of some old things.
Worldviews are unique, like fingerprints. You have yours. I have mine.
Here we will share and compare, and add others from Jesus to Einstein.
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Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Come, my friends,
’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Tennyson. . .
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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