[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:05:32 -0400 (EDT)
Why not just call it the unknown? Why throw God in it? Why even capitalize
it? And aren't you going to feel like a ding-a-ling when the next thing is
discovered. I don't understand how my water softener works, all those little
ions gaining and losing charges from the minerals. I think I'll just call it
God.
The Holy Unknown, and the wholly unknown for the forseeable future...
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 19, 2007 3:35 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize
>
Unfortunately we know very little about the laws of physics and
>almost nothing at all about the "stuff" of existence, all we really know are
>some interactions among particles that we've been able to measure. But what
>the hell the particles ARE remains as much a mystery to us as ever. We have
>some primal words like "energy" that sometimes delude us into thinking that
>because we have a word we have knowledge, but it ain't so. God could be
>energy -- or energy a manifestation of God. Is there some ground of being?
>Some not-beyond-which? That doesn't have to be like anything you've ever
>imagined. To me God means the Wholly Unknown. Do I believe in that God?
>You bet. The unknown is always with me.
>
>The Rev. Mike Geary,
>Pope of the Unknown.
>in Memphis
>
>
>
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