Fwd: [DIGEST] Metanexus Digest 2004.03.17

There are several interesting items in this post, which I've forwarded from
the Metanexus listserve. Especially interesting are Ruse's comments about
the creation scientist I mentioned on this list several months ago, Dr.
Raymond Damadian, who was not named a Nobel Laureate this past year despite
the fact that he probably had a better case for it than those who were.
Ruse strongly suggests what I believe--that he was left out in the cold
precisely because he's a YEC.

Ted

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George F.R. Ellis, a leading theoretical cosmologist renowned for his bold and
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social writings were condemned by government ministers in the former apartheid
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George Ellis reflects on some of his books.
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claims from each domain according to the same epistemological methods and
principles? These are fundamental questions in the field of science and
religion, and in the essay below, delivered at the AAR/SBL conference in Toronto
in 2002, Taede A. Smedes considers these questions in his critique of James
Hutchingson's "Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God" At
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models based on scientific theory.
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implications of extraterrestrial intelligence, Lawrence Fagg instead considers
the theological import of our aloneness in the universe. Confronting the
likelihood of failure to detect verifiable extraterrestrial signals, Fagg
suggests that the characteristics of the universe that yield this likelihood may
help us to understand God.
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 <http://metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?8759> The Nobel Prize
in Medicine
In this op/ed piece, Michael Ruse, Professor of the Philosophy of Biology at
Florida State University, considers the possible political and religious issues
at stake in the selection of winners of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or
Medicine. The 2003 prize was awarded to Dr. Paul Lauterbur and Dr. Peter
Mansfield for their work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Amidst the
controversy surrounding the Nobel committee's exclusion of Dr. Raymond Damadian
despite his groundbreaking work in MRI, Ruse speculates that Damadian's
exclusion was motivated by knowledge of his religious commitments, specifically
his support of creation science.
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