Comments on: Priest-Cosmologist Wins $1.6 Million Templeton Prize http://blogs.scienceforums.net/ecoli/2008/03/15/priest-cosmologist-wins-16-million-templeton-prize/ a science and medicine related weblog from scienceforums.net Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:09:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Oliver http://blogs.scienceforums.net/ecoli/2008/03/15/priest-cosmologist-wins-16-million-templeton-prize/#comment-54 Oliver Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:41:00 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/ecoli/2008/03/15/priest-cosmologist-wins-16-million-templeton-prize/#comment-54 The Roman Catholic church is not the uniformly uptight organization a lot of people (particularly disaffected Catholics) assume it is. It's big enough and there is a lot of intellectual, and even political diversity represented. And yet I've felt, given my personal religious views, that the church has many smart people doing a lot of hand waving. But perhaps that's a lot better than those of the religious who just point and scream at things. The Roman Catholic church is not the uniformly uptight organization a lot of people (particularly disaffected Catholics) assume it is. It’s big enough and there is a lot of intellectual, and even political diversity represented.

And yet I’ve felt, given my personal religious views, that the church has many smart people doing a lot of hand waving. But perhaps that’s a lot better than those of the religious who just point and scream at things.

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