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Jehovah and Hyperspace:
Exploring the Future of Science, Religion and Society

Jehovah and Hyperspace
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Theme and Structure

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.

  1. Seeking the Transcendent and  Immanent God
  2. Religion Evolving
  3. Science and the Life of the Spirit
  4. Science Evolving
  5. The Physics of Ultimate Reality
  6. Community evolving
  7. Book Reviews: God from Different Angles
  8. 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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Science and Religion at the Crossroads

Science and Religion at the Crossroads
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Contents:

Part 1: At The Crossroads

Part 2: Looking Forward: Neoscience

Part 3: Looking Forward: Neotheology

Part 4: Striking Out

This book is about evolution and the future of the human family, but more particularly about the future of science and religion. Both, it argues, are in a critical and unstable state - at a crossroads - because both are now facing paradigmatic change. The collection of papers which make up the book deal with different aspects of the change required, and while its prime intention is to raise awareness, in some places it does suggest useful, even necessary, answers to the problems that are identified. Some of the papers are revised versions of previous talks and articles, some have been written specially for this volume to fill in gaps and tie complex themes into a unity. Inevitably, there was some repetition in the originals, and this has been largely edited out, but occasionally left in deliberately where it seemed to give useful emphasis.

The title of the book was chosen to indicate that both science and religion now find themselves at a point of decision, where difficult choices must be made. Though both still retain social authority, they are losing prestige and moral influence, albeit for different reasons, and since there is no way back, the only way is forward, by facing up to new discoveries for which explanation cannot be found within the current framework of understanding. Upon inspection it will be found that many of the problems now arising are common to both science and religion and, as always, identifying them takes us more than half way to their solutions. What we are learning about cosmic and biological evolution, about brain function and the historical origin of religion must stir curiosity in all but the most reactionary scientist and religionist. Somewhere in this vast, and growing, area of knowledge a new definition of the traditional "God" must be found and a post-Cartesian definition of science, able to encompass a reality beyond its traditional three dimensions.

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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

 

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