Publications
Jehovah and Hyperspace:
Exploring the Future of Science, Religion and Society
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Most books on science and religion limit themselves to asking whether or not both fields of human knowledge are mutually compatible, but the collection of articles in this volume assumes that both science and religion are evolving, that there are consequently different kinds of each, and that new forms are being born as old forms start to die. Therefore the question of whether science and religion are compatible becomes almost meaningless until we first ask, “Which kind of science, which kind of religion?” To compare old science with new religion, or vice versa, would be a recipe for confusion. Jehovah and Hyperspace starts from the premise that a new kind of science and a new kind of religion are now becoming visible, and from this assumption argues that all the religions of the world have been made obsolete – which many would accept anyway – but also that science as we know it is passing away – a proposal that most scientists would either deny or consider meaningless.
The headings of the book’s eight parts give a rough map of where the argument is tending, with the final two being in the nature of a retrospective overview and a prospective celebration.
- Seeking the Transcendent and Immanent God
- Religion Evolving
- Science and the Life of the Spirit
- Science Evolving
- The Physics of Ultimate Reality
- Community evolving
- Book Reviews: God from Different Angles
- Poems: Living the Life
However, because the several sections originated mostly in talks and articles on different topics and of varied difficulty, the most effective and enjoyable way to read the book is probably to dip in where one finds most interest until, hopefully, the wider picture starts to take shape. Approach it then as a box of chocolates, leaving the more resistible ones to the end. With the exception of Section V, The Physics of Ultimate Reality, most of the pieces are fairly soft-centred – i.e., they do not demand specialised knowledge or furrowing of brows from a reasonably literate reader. Section V, however, is a rather long, complex and controversial piece of theoretical physics, definitely hard-centred. The average reader who might find it discouraging is therefore advised to give up as soon as discouragement sets in and simply take it as the author’s attempt to put together the kind of new scientific thinking that is required for both science and religion to move forward. If it should provoke anyone into suggesting a better theory of ultimate reality, it will have served its purpose.
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Religion without Fairytales, Science with Soul
The opening paragraph begins:
“The theologies of all established religions have been made obsolete by two scientific discoveries in the past one hundred and fifty years. Both concern evolution and both constitute revelation in the most literal sense, for they reveal something about the way our universe and we as human beings have been created. Thus they reveal something of critical importance about the creating power which we have traditionally called God.”
It that makes you want to read on, this 30 page booklet can be obtained for £3 (postage included) from:
Win Kennedy
Living Spirituality Network
The Well at Willen
Newport Road
Willen, Milton Keynes, MK15 9AA
Work in Progress
The Noval Trilogy (Click to open/download PDF)
An impossibly ambitious project, involving three new paradigms – in science, religion and socio-economics – and three major books, developing the “triple helix” concept which this website introduces. The themes converge towards an evolutionary step change when, it is argued, the appearance of a new kind of human, Homo novus, will be in evidence. But we are almost certainly going to suffer an evolutionary regression for the couple of centuries before that can be expected.
I tell you nought for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the sea grows higher. G. K. Chesterton