Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:00, Oleg wrote:HiWhile I was reading http://telemetrybox.org/tokyo/ (a paper about Debian based on a presentation), a few things cought my attention: The last line of the author's academic credentials reads: "Ph.D. Candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2003(?). Divine action in the context of Scientific Thinking: From Quantum Mechanics to Divine Action. " I'd like to know if this is a joke or a prank (seriously) The paper also mentioned that the author, Christoph Lameter, is a faculty member of the University of Phoenix. I'm a Ph.D. candidate myself (at Columbia), and I thought one could not be a faculty member (anywhere) without a doctorate degree (at least). No? Cheers, OlegWhile I am the first to acknowledge that there are those who are religious who don't concur with scientific interpretations, one does not preclude the other. I am quite familiar with writing and research that explain the order in the simplicity of the laws of physics (particularly from the perspective of those for whom physics and applied mathematics are simple) as either being an example of divinity, the creation of divinity, or divinity itself. I seem to recall comments by Dr. Stephen Hawking to the latter effect in "A Brief History of Time" (I lent my hardcover copy of it to someone some 15 years ago and never saw it again - otherwise I'd offer the quote.) Connecting it into the chaos of a computing environment is not a stretch at all. That said, it isn't for everyone, particularly if you are of a more agnostic outlook.
