Sep 4, 2010

No place for God

Sistine Chapel, fresco Michelangelo, the death...Image via Wikipedia
A brilliant article with a great summing up:

Julian Baggini: If science has not actually killed God, it has rendered Him unrecognisable - Science, News - The Independent:

"In the scientific universe, God is squeezed until his pips squeak. If he survives, then he can't do so without changing his form. Only faith makes it possible to look at such a distorted, scientifically respectable deity and claim to recognise the same chap depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For those without faith, that God is clearly dead, and, yes, science helped to kill him."


We can say that it is only the semitic God that has died, but then, it is cold comfort indeed, to know that science leaves no room for any avatar of God.
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