Just found out that Ian Barbour died on Christmas Eve. I encountered his writing in a course on Science and Religion that I took at St. Paul's College, the United Church affiliate college at University of Waterloo. I think it was Science and Religion (1968) but might have been the earlier (1966) Issues in Science and Religion. I forget the prof's name, but it was also the course where I first ran into process theology. It definitely shaped my thinking on the relationship between science and religion for a time, though perhaps not so much today.

I dont know a great deal about quantum mechanics but I am fascinated by it and it's change of a world view...

It will change religion I'm sure so I post this here (Arm: old age gives me sitzfleisch -- YOU translate it )

So I toy with the question : How can quantum mechanic be so impervious to

Metaphor? There is no good one

Visualization? You can't build a picture of any of it.

Aristotle called it aimless and witless. St. Augustine condemned it as a disease. The ancient Greeks blamed it for Pandora’s unleashing destruction on the world. And one early Christian leader even pinned the fall of Lucifer himself on idle, intemperate, unrestrained curiosity.

Some scientists have come forward with an amazing declaration ...                                               Life did not begin on earth...as life began before  earth by about a million years!                 On reading about this I sez to myself well, there goes Genesis....

Today, we are as much conditioned by belief in science as we are faith in religion.

I do find it very odd

That I have a funny belief in God

The more I learn the less I agree

With other people's theology

What is god? It seems hard

To understand more than a shard

Of an unfathomable mystery:

A universe with growing complexity

That we try to understand, with an alliance

To the latest in quantum science

(of which I know little, in all fairness)

But it involves universal awareness

Human consciousness we dote on

But true also down to the photon

This is a truly mind bending program, very informative, well explained.

http://ww3.tvo.org/video/173822/secret-life-chaos

This is really an ad for a book by an old friend and colleague at Concordia university. He's a mathematician - which I had always thought of as the most authoritative and certain field of study there was. Not so, he says in  his new book. All science, including mathematics, is full of uncertainty and constant change which still leaves us in uncertainty. You can imagine how much worse it must be in fields like history, politics and theollogy.