Links for 1/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Congrats to Rep. Caron, our first Muslim Intelligence Committee member - interesting choice after Paris and likey the right one. Daniel DiLeo does an interesting piece on the level of authoritative teaching the Ecology Encyclical will have, although he does not stress much about his secular power as the head of state of Vatican City to be heard at that level - my original comments to his and others writings on the encyclical are much more direct on how we must help the poor in harms way (not so much on the non-human environment - which some focus on but I don't find a moral concern). There is a jewel here for Flannery Connor devotees, especially regarding her prayer journals.
Michael Gerson writes about cosmology and religion - whether it is organized or random (he does not mention first the religiousity then the atheism of Hawking), but does include exloration of a multiverse - which I don't find convincing, since the variation of a single subatomic particle, much more than a split human decision (meaningles really) should theoretically produce a new unverse - but an awful lot of duplication between them - although they would theoretically be of infinite number and we could not sense them anyway. Still, the best proofs of God are not scientific - they are a belief in God causing or not causing existence or reality - especially the non-pysical kind. Of course, physicists are less likely to take a philosphy course than philosophers read a physics paper or watch the Science Channel.
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