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<\/a>I just came across a very interesting blog on the Discover Magazine site, called Reality Base<\/a>. It\u2019s done by Adam Frank, and his bio says: <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p><\/em>Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester who studies star formation and stellar death using supercomputers. His new book, \u201c<\/em>The Constant Fire, Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate<\/em><\/a>,\u201d has just been published. He will be joining Reality Base to post an ongoing discussion of science and religion\u2014you can read his previous posts <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>, and find more of his thoughts on science and the human prospect at the <\/em>Constant Fire blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n
His most recent post is on \u201chierophany,\u201d a term invented by Mircea Eliade to designate where and when the sacred erupts into the world. \u201cA hierophany is the manifestation of the sacred, the act of its appearance in the world. A hierophany occurs when \u2018something sacred shows itself.\u2019 According to Eliade, this process forms the heart of all religious life.\u201d\nLike Michael Dowd, Frank is arguing for a marriage of science and religion, of updating our religious understanding with new scientific knowledge. He points out the universality of religious experience, and the need for scientists to not dismiss it as deterministic neurochemical processes.<\/p>\n
While Frank rants against religious fundamentalists who dismiss scientific facts because they don\u2019t agree with their doctrines, he also has little use for New Agers who see quantum physics as proof of their own rather unscientific concepts. See the blog entry \u201cTranscending the Silly\u201d \u2013 the title tells you what he thinks.<\/p><\/div>\n
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There\u2019s far more there than I can summarize in a brief blog entry \u2013 go read it yourself. I certainly intend to do so.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I just came across a very interesting blog on the Discover Magazine site, called Reality Base. It\u2019s done by Adam Frank, and his bio says: Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester who studies star formation and stellar death using supercomputers. His new book, \u201cThe Constant Fire, Beyond the Science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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