Religion and science: “As recently as the ’70s, intellectuals assumed that hard science was on track to resolve the two Really Big Questions: why life exists and how the universe began. What’s more, both Really Big Answers were assumed to involve strictly deterministic forces. But things haven’t worked out that way. Instead, the more scientists have learned, the more mysterious the Really Big Questions have become.” —The New ConvergenceWired)
The article includes an image of Darwin and Einstein sporting halos.
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