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Re: [Phys-l] Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions



It's always challenging and fun to win a prize from heathens, no matter what the heathens may believe.
Regards,
p.s. Working on the novel, "Paul's Epistle's in the Sands of Mars"
Regards,
Jack

"Trust me. I have a lot of experience at this."
General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley




On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, carmelo@pacific.net.sg wrote:

It could be of interest to some of you that the following scientists
and philosophers were awarded Templeton Prize (>US$1000,000) The prize
has been criticized by Richard Dawkins in his book, The God Delusion,
that the prize was given "usually to a scientist who is prepared to
say something nice about religion".

1995 Paul Davies (Theoretical physicist)
1996 Dr. Bill Bright (Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ)
1997 Pandurang Shastri Athavale (philosopher, founder of Swadhyay Movement)
1998 Sigmund Sternberg (Philanthropist Founder of the Three Faith Forum)
1999 Ian Barbour (Professor Emeritus at Carleton College)
2000 Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
2001 Rev. Arthur Peacocke (Former Dean of Clare College, Cambridge)
2002 Rev. John Polkinghorne (Physicist and theologian)
2003 Holmes Rolston III (Philosopher)
2004 George F. R. Ellis (Cosmologist and philosopher)
2005 Charles Townes (Nobel laureate and physicist)
2006 John D. Barrow (Cosmologist and theoretical physicist)
2007 Charles Taylor (Philosopher)
2008 Rev. Prof. Micha³ Heller (Physicist and philosopher)
2009 Bernard d'Espagnat (Physicist)
2010 Francisco J. Ayala (Biologist)


Quoting "Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>:
As I recall John M. said that those who *bring* their religious
habits and ways of knowing into the lab are significantly
handicapped . . . This says nothing about those who successfully
decouple their religious ways of knowing from their scientific ways
of knowing; i.e. those who do not bring those religious habits into
the lab.

I believe it's an important distinction.


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