A new video collection from PBS called Journey of the Universe is due out June 4, 2013. It explores the philosophical efforts of some religious and scientific leaders to pull together what Stephen Jay Gould called "non-overlapping magisteria": science and religion specifically as they refer to ecology.
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The Journey of the Universe Collection is a 10-hour-long examination of the work and impact of cosmologist/ecologist and theologian Thomas Berry. Berry [1914-2009] was a Roman Catholic priest, whose work combined a study of global cultural and religious history and influenced many scholars. Directed by evolutionary philosopher Thomas Brian Swimme and Yale religious historian Mary Ellen Tucker, the ten hours include 20 interviews with scientists and philosophers concerning Berry's impact.
Although this is obviously not my area of expertise, I had seen part of the original one hour program and felt that people in the anthropology field and related sciences would be interested in the presentation, so I enlisted the help of my family philosopher/media geek, who does have those chops and was willing to review the 10 hour video combination for us.
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God made the stars(suns). It does not make sense for God to have made all those suns just to light up the night sky or the few people on Earth. It only makes sense God put planets around some of those suns, with life and even intelligent life(man).
In the galaxy Andromeda, a sun has a planet with intelligent life on it. What does their “Book of Genesis” say about the creation of the Universe?
The whole idea that the Universe was created in 6 days and that the Universe is only 5,000 years old is crazy. Even if God came down to Earth and gave to the Hebrew people the story of the creation of the Universe, how would God explain the creation of the Universe to a group of illiterate shepherds sitting around their camp fire? When the smartest of the group had to take his shoes off to count to 20! If God came down to Earth today and collected the greatest scientific minds and tried to explain the creation of the Universe, it would be like me trying to explain algebra to a dog.
The creation of the Universe is beyond our ability to understand. The miracle is that the Universe and life exists, not how long it took or when it happened.