science and religion

interesting articles on Science and Religion, one of my favourite topics

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/science/27essa.html?ex=1129348800&en=016508074273f63a&ei=5070

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/science/sciencespecial2/06canyon.html

well, i have always believed in having a Creator, and fine-tuner, for our universe. and i always think that Evolution is the basis of Biology.

Excerpt:

This is not the God of deism, who cranked up the universe and let it run. In drafting the principles of physics he left trapdoors - what Dr. Polkinghorne calls "causal joints" - through which to intervene, placing the earth in a hospitable orbit or unleashing the cascade of mutations needed for a microbe to evolve into a man. The trick is to do this without appearing to violate his own laws.

Some theologians speculate that this happens on the subatomic level, when a particle appears to dart probabilistically, with a roll of the quantum dice. Maybe it is God doing the shuffling, and what appears to mortals as quantum indeterminacy is divine intervention in disguise.

Others propose that God acts through nonlinear dynamics, in which microscopic fluctuations give rise to potentially earthshaking results - chaos theory's "butterfly effect." Here too the influence would be undetectable. With or without the guiding hand of the creator, reality would appear the same.

It feels so good to read. Havent been reading much lately, and as a result i feel this sense of intellectual void in my mind. Sigh (big one), how I wish I could take a step back from this whirlpool of activities and immerse myself in reading. I have such a long and interesting list of books to read. But time is running out, and i will be very very busy the next few weekssss, so don't think i can read any of the books. And i DON'T want to read notes notes notes again. again. and again.

And NO. i don't want to read "The insider's guide to American Colleges" , "Barron SAT I", etc