Saturday, September 9, 2006 at the Class of 1957 Retreat Seminar on Science, Religion and Faith at the Resurrection Center, Woodstock, IL:
 

Fred Borsch's Flip Chart Notes for his Presentation on "Keeping Life's Questions"

Sheet #1

· Brain/Mind

· Brain is wider than the sky

· Self?

· Super- Consciousness = "Glorious Accident?"

· Determinism

· Free Will

· Adam & Eve

· Tree - Apple

· Are we fully programmed?

Sheet #2

· Star Thronged Heavens

· 100 Billion Galaxies

· Quantum Queerness - it works!

· ! No-Thing !

· Symmetry/Asymmetry

· Infinite in all directions

· Strings?

· Waves/Particles

· "Observation"

· Uptick

· Eros

· Patterns

Sheet #3

· Awe - Wonder - Thanks - Response - Responsibility

· Plato's Cave

· Deconstruction

· Logos

· Twain & River

· Apophatic

· We are participants/Interpreters

· "We live in the description of a place."

· Only our 5 senses!

· Challenges: Science, History, Other Religions, Relativism

· The Underwriting

· Music - Unwritten Theology

Sheet #4

· Long Line of Questions

· Sam

· Not on Wednesdays & Fridays

· Holocaust

· Suffering

· Darwin

Sheet #5

· True Self-Interest

· True Cooperation

· Goodness

· Incurvatus in Se . . .

· Problem of Good

· Love?

Sheet #6

[From Borsch's "Notes on Further Reading," The Spirit Searches Everything, p. 145]

Holmes Royston III:

· Genes, Genesis & God: Values & Their Origin in Natural and Human History

· Science & Religion: A Critcal Survey

· Environmental Ethics