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