Searching for the Mind of God

I found an interesting article in the 12/18/06 issue of Newsweek in the "Persicope" section having to do with science and religion. Paul Davies, a physicist and author of more than 20 books has recently been chosen to head a new think tank on cosmology named Beyond at Arizona State University.

The article describes him as a person who is neither religious in a traditional sense or dogmantically atheist who "has devoted his career to searching for the equation that will reveal what he calls 'the mind of God,' the metaphysical foundation for everthing there is." Last month at a cosmology conference attended by avowed atheists Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris he noted, "Scientists proceed on the asumption that there is a coherent scheme to the universe to be uncovered. That's also an act of faith." He sounds like a breath of fresh air to me. To learn more about Richard Dawkin's recent book which I mentioned in a previous blog, check out Scot McKnight's blog where he and a scientist are reviewing it.