LASER Inventor Wins Religious Award
Charles Townes, the man who brought the world the LASER and MASER, has just won the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. He has been given the award for writing about the relationship between science and religion.
Though it does seem unusual to some people that a man of science like Townes would recieve such an award, it makes sense when you see it in one perspective. Even when you look at the most basic parts of our world, they are planned out just right so to support life. For example, water loses density when it freezes. If it behaved like other compounds did and gained density, life would not exist here on this planet.
Sadly, Townes has been attacked for what says is "being religiously oriented." By all means, he is not supporting creationism. All he is doing is showing how science and religion are in agreement with each other.
Just look at the universe if you want to see this. For a long time, the assumption was that the universe just simply existed and that life came out of nowhere. Yet, looking at the universe a second time, it is possible to see that the universe didn't just exist.
The entire universe seems very much like it was planned and not just thrown together haphazardly. After all, something that has no intelligence cannot create something, and nature has no intelligence.
Mr. Towne's arguement of the union of science and religion deserves merit not only for his willingness to withstand the ridicule of his comrades in the scientific comumnity, but also for his ability to show a relationship between science and religion without endorsing creationism.
Though it does seem unusual to some people that a man of science like Townes would recieve such an award, it makes sense when you see it in one perspective. Even when you look at the most basic parts of our world, they are planned out just right so to support life. For example, water loses density when it freezes. If it behaved like other compounds did and gained density, life would not exist here on this planet.
Sadly, Townes has been attacked for what says is "being religiously oriented." By all means, he is not supporting creationism. All he is doing is showing how science and religion are in agreement with each other.
Just look at the universe if you want to see this. For a long time, the assumption was that the universe just simply existed and that life came out of nowhere. Yet, looking at the universe a second time, it is possible to see that the universe didn't just exist.
The entire universe seems very much like it was planned and not just thrown together haphazardly. After all, something that has no intelligence cannot create something, and nature has no intelligence.
Mr. Towne's arguement of the union of science and religion deserves merit not only for his willingness to withstand the ridicule of his comrades in the scientific comumnity, but also for his ability to show a relationship between science and religion without endorsing creationism.
