I thoroughly enjoyed today's class discussion on New Worlds, World Views, and their connection to the expanding digital world. So then I went home and was checking my yahoo account, when I came across the following story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking. After reading it I thought back to the 8th grade when a fellow student told me that there was no way I could understand the universe if I had a religious perspective, and thought that it and us had been created by a loving Heavenly Father, which we have by the way, and that I should stop thinking about it. From that I learned that many people still believe that churches in general is seeking to squash all science, which makes me sad because I don't see that as true, at least not with my faith.
I tend to agree with Brother Eyring in his "Reflections of a Scientist", which comes to the general conclusion that the scriptures tell relatively little about the world and the Universe because it is not as important to him as our safe return, which should be our objective too. Anyways, I hope that everyone that reads Hawking's book, which I would like too, understand that though he is a genius and has done much for the world of physics, he is just a man seeking truth as he sees it, and isn't the final authority.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like you are finding one of the things you were looking for at BYU - mind-expanding discussion, which, by the way, is one of the benefits of formal learning in a classroom. You have others to discuss with who are familiar with the material, but isn't it fascinating the number of different points of view that can develop?
ReplyDeleteThe variety brought to this class truly amazes me. The other day we were discussing the influence of the media in classrooms, for all purposes. And a number of the students commented on learning to type with programs and such, that I have never heard of. It made me wonder how diverse is just that one class really?
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