Frank Parkinson
Auteur de The Power We Call God
Œuvres de Frank Parkinson
Post-trauma Stress: Reduce Long-term Effects And Hidden Emotional Damage Caused By Violence And Disaster (2000) 17 exemplaires
Listening and Helping in the Workplace: A Guide for Managers, Supervisors and Colleagues Who Need to Use Counselling… (1995) 8 exemplaires
Post-trauma stress : a personal guide to reduce the long-term effects and hidden emotional damage caused by violence… 2 exemplaires
The Power we call God - New Expanded Edition (Pam) 1 exemplaire
Evolutionary Christianity, Frank Parkinson (Pam) 1 exemplaire
The power we call God 1 exemplaire
Religion without Fairy Tales, Science with Soul 1 exemplaire
Evolutionary Christianity 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 18
- Membres
- 85
- Popularité
- #214,931
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
Topics covered include
• Post-mythical to mystical (science and religion)
• The (Richard) Dawkins Phenomenon
• Beyond Einstein
• Neoscinece & Neotheolgy
• And much more…
Overall this book is a challenge to both religious AND scientific dogma and defensive positions.
From the introduction: “Homo Sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us… Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wash to become.” (E.O.Wilson)
On the implications that the universe is (forever) expanding …
“The fact that man is not final is the unmanageable, disturbing fact… The question of what is to come after Homo Sapiens is the most persistent fascinating and most insoluble question in the whole world.”
On the implication to scientists that there was a Big bang at the start of our universe.
Theologians are delighted with the proof that Universe had a beginning, but astronomers are curiously upset. It turns out that the scientists behave the way the rest of us do when our beliefs are in conflict with the evidence. We become irritated, we pretend the conflict does not exist, or we paper it over with meaningless phrases…For the scientists who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story [of modern cosmology] ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting here for centuries.” Robert Jasrow, an agnostic scientist
His short essay titled “The Dawkins Phenomonen” is a great read!… (plus d'informations)