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On Mar 21, 11:33 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/22...
> "Last week, someone that I had never heard of won the £820,000
> Templeton prize, awarded annually for "discovery in areas engaging
> life's biggest questions". He is Professor Michael Heller, a Polish
> physicist and priest, an unusual combination..... We can however
> appreciate a thought which had struck Einstein, that the universe is
> comprehensible. In other words it is susceptible to rational analysis
> through mathematics. It is not a trivial question to ask why the
> universe is amenable to mathematical mapping. Einstein found the
> question an "eternal mystery... which we shall never understand". Heller
> suggests that the universe is so comprehensible not just because our
> minds are fitted to understanding things about it, but for a far
> larger reason. The comprehensibility reflects, he argues as a
> theologian, the Logos that has formed it. This Logos, the mind of God,
> is rational. Among us humans rationality is, Heller argues, a value.
> Our decision to pursue knowledge rationally, through science or
> philosophy, is a moral decision. The Logos is the Word that John uses
> in the sublime introduction to his Gospel: In the beginning was the
> Word."



And I've recently become a rationalist.

Such a strange coincide, his name and mine.



> http://woodside.blogs.com/cosmologycuriosity/2006/03/john_barrow_win....
> "John D. Barrow wins the 2006 Templeton Prize"
>
> http://www.aapps.org/archive/bulletin/vol15/15-5/15_5_p2p3%7F.pdf
> John Barrow: "Einstein as Icon. How Einstein Became the
> Personification of Physics. Einstein restored faith in the
> unintelligibility of science. Everyone knew that Einstein had done
> something important in 1905 (and again in 1915) but almost nobody
> could tell you exactly what it was. When Einstein was interviewed for
> a Dutch newspaper in 1921, he attributed his mass appeal to the
> mystery of his work for the ordinary person: "Does it make a silly
> impression on me, here and yonder, about my theories of which they
> cannot understand a word? I think it is funny and also interesting to
> observe. I am sure that it is the mystery of non-understanding that
> appeals to them...it impresses them, it has the colour and the appeal of
> the mysterious."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com