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	<title>Comments on: Vacuum Energy, Dark Energy and Richard Dawkins</title>
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		<title>By: Jim G</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim G</dc:creator>
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		<description>LOVE the physics.  We all need to hear more about the dark energy / vacuum energy link, which is a huge bridge between the quantum micro-world and the big-bang / gravity-driven / macro-universe. 

As to the theological implications, or anti-theological implications of all the amazing stuff that we now know about the structure of reality and the universe -- be careful of the hubris that discovery and enlightenment brings.  The ancient Greek tragedies often warned about hubris.  Pull out some Homer or Sophocles sometime, then follow up with the lessons of history from Herodotus.  

Hawking said, with intended atheistic irony, that we shall know the mind of God. The ancients roll in their graves over such hubris.  Want to bring it forward a millennium or two? OK: &quot;There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy&quot;.

Please keep the wonderful science coming! But watch the philosophical/anti-theological hubris.  And I, as a theist, agree to never deny the edge of critical  doubt and existential skepticism that faith must dance on.  Doubt and faith, yin and yang, dark and light, wave and particle, despair and hope, neurons and conscious mind, painful death and God, chaos and emergence, randomness and information.  

Complementarity, don&#039;t ya love it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOVE the physics.  We all need to hear more about the dark energy / vacuum energy link, which is a huge bridge between the quantum micro-world and the big-bang / gravity-driven / macro-universe. </p>
<p>As to the theological implications, or anti-theological implications of all the amazing stuff that we now know about the structure of reality and the universe &#8212; be careful of the hubris that discovery and enlightenment brings.  The ancient Greek tragedies often warned about hubris.  Pull out some Homer or Sophocles sometime, then follow up with the lessons of history from Herodotus.  </p>
<p>Hawking said, with intended atheistic irony, that we shall know the mind of God. The ancients roll in their graves over such hubris.  Want to bring it forward a millennium or two? OK: &#8220;There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Please keep the wonderful science coming! But watch the philosophical/anti-theological hubris.  And I, as a theist, agree to never deny the edge of critical  doubt and existential skepticism that faith must dance on.  Doubt and faith, yin and yang, dark and light, wave and particle, despair and hope, neurons and conscious mind, painful death and God, chaos and emergence, randomness and information.  </p>
<p>Complementarity, don&#8217;t ya love it?</p>
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