God vs. Science

I read an interesting article from Time Magazine online, a bit dated (11/5/06) though no less relevant, called "God vs. Science." The bulk of the article is a debate between Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary scientist at Oxford University and author of "The God Delusion," and Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and author of "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."

It's captivating to finally read this debate framed from a scientific perspective (more so with Dawkins, of course), rather than between scientist and theologian. The line that most resonated with me was the closing comment from Dawkins:

"If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed."

The graphic image above, by the way, is from another really interesting article I read in Cosmos Magazine, "Hunt for the God Particle," about the Large Hadron Collider being built outside Geneva.

And now you have your reading assignments for today.