SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT TIME AND GOD/SCIENCE

A few thoughts about TIME and the dichotomy of GOD and SCIENCE:


                
                TIME

Time, Time, Time.
    Elusive. Fleeting.

A function of control-perception
    In this little world of ours.

Useful to keep us grounded,
    To calculate distance,
    To measure the past,
    And define a future.

The essence of infinity
    Is energy, not time.

If you want to keep time,
    Then realize that it is vertical-
        All things happen in one instant.

Anything that can be imagined,
    IS.

Time, Time, Time.
    Elusive. Fleeting.
    Let's jump into another dimension.
    Together. Alone. With all this world.

D.R. Hirsch   2007

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                 NO DICHOTOMY

There is no dichotomy
    Between God and Science.
Scientific discovery
    Is the unfolding knowledge
        of God's Mind.

(In counterbalance to the minister:)
    "There can only be one truth!"
        (There are a million.)
    "God cannot, He will not allow!"
        (God does everyday as He watches us fall.)

    "No television! No comics! No dancing!" he says.
    "They are the devil's workshop...
    "God will never allow man to go to the moon!"

All these things the pastor said
    (as I made my roof and steeple)
If God is love,
    What is he talking about?

Sunday morning sermons,
    Circa 1949,
Made me go straight out of my mind.
    Whatever is he saying?
    The man is a fool.

God speaks of loving one another
    as He has loved us;
Science writes the poetry of God's mind.

There is no dichotomy
    Between God and Science.
Scientific discovery
    Unravels the mysteries of God's mind.

Scientific discovery is the unfolding
    knowledge of God's mind.


D.R. Hirsch  2007