Millionaire paying scientists to look for proof of God - Sir John Templeton wants to know

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE via Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | April 20, 2002 | By FAYE FLAM

[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/3103640.htm

[resistance]

"One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious," he told an audience at a foundation-sponsored meeting.

This prof has no contempt for people of faith, does he?

[DJ MacWoW]

Evolutionists lack of logic never ceases to amaze me. I've never seen evidence of evolution as things, anything, left unto itself, devolves. And when was the last time a "big bang" created something useful? Common sense seems to have nothing to do with science.

[Rustynailww]

"Millionaire paying scientists to look for proof of God" .............the search is the proof.

[johnny7]

The old geezer should just keel over and die.

He'll get the answer to his question.

[jlogajan]

Ironic that a religionist would subsidize godless scientists -- but at best he'll only get back poetry -- among the most expensive ever commissoned.

[jlogajan]

I've never seen evidence of evolution

Open your eyes.

[G.Mason]

*******<< "It's as if the universe has a bunch of knobs," and you can't twiddle them without disaster striking, said Tegmark.">>*******

Max Tegmark is a prime example that higher education does nothing for those with no commom sense.

By the way.....I was advised by anonymous sources that the author Faye Flam is really Flim Flam.

Pitty poor Sir John Templeton. At 88 he is so "religious" he needs proof of a superior being.

Twiddle this!

[jlogajan]

anything, left unto itself, devolves

Hmm, which direction "order?" Does not a snowflake "devolve" into a raindrop -- BUT does not a raindrop "evolve" into an intricately complex snowflake.

[Tom Bombadil]

How sad.

[Bommer]

He wants to find proof of God. Wait till he dies, for it is written that it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle, than a rich man to get into the kingdom of Heaven.

Sir John, your going to get your proof the hardest way imanagable! Happy roasting!

[DontMessWithMyCountry]

""One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious," he told an audience at a foundation-sponsored meeting."

Well, Stevie, doll, tell that to Albert Einstein; but, then again, what did that old fart know? Maybe a good deal more than you. Who ARE you, anyway? What was your contribution that equalled or surpassed the sheer genius of Einstein? Oh, one more thing, Stevie boy, glad to see that you're so brilliant that you can't fathom walking and chewing gum at the same time. Nice to see the objectivity (/not) behind the experiment.

[jlogajan]

Happy roasting!

"Christianity is the religion of love." ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[jlogajan]

Well, Stevie, doll, tell that to Albert Einstein; but, then again, what did that old fart know?

Ha, well don't start the old myth that he was a religionist, because he denied it often. He was wrong in his career too. He was opposed to a lot of quantum dynamics, but the weight of evidence went against his intuitions on the matter.

[keithtoo]

You know better than this! The old snowflake/raindrop example is only a function of water achieving equilibrium which, as you no doubt know. is a net loss of energy in either case. It says much more about the inherent order and design built into nature that this can happen and unhappen than it does about water molecules evolving

More Evol-Doer nonsense. The 'proof' of God, or one of them anyway is an ordered universe!

"The heavens declare the glory of God"

[jlogajan]

What was your contribution that equalled or surpassed the sheer genius of Einstein?

By the way, that is a logical fallacy of Argumentum ad verecundiam, the appeal to authority.

[Corin Stormhands]

Templeton, 88

I guess he thinks if there really is a God he should do something about getting to know Him. At 88 he could just wait a few years and save a few bucks.

[LS]

Some of you may know the details, but about a year ago---maybe two---a Baylor U. prof had his center shut down because he was working on a theory of proving "intelligent design" and the libs, even at Baylor, couldn't stand it. It was written up in the American Spectator.

[jlogajan]

The old snowflake/raindrop example is only a function of water achieving equilibrium

Nice arm waving. Equiliribum with what?

a net loss of energy in either case.

Well, raindrops are warmer than snowflakes, so I'd say conversion from a snowflake to a raindrop is a net gain of energy.

[boris]

"Even if there's only one universe, Tegmark said, observations made in the last decade seem to show that it's infinite in all directions, he said."

"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count my self a King of infinite space."--Shakespeare, Hamlet

--Boris