To access the slide presentation of Dr. Scott Dodelson click on the active address above. Jerry's introduction of Dr. Dodelson here If your Internet connection lacks speed or you do not have Powerpoint on your computer try this:
access the presentation via a PDF created by Jerry and Ruth's son: coming soon
 
Full Agenda for the Retreat/Seminar here
 
Click here to access Bart Reitz's Evolution Paper. Jerry Moyar's introduction of Bart here 
 
Fred Borsch conducted the first seminar session which focused on his book, The Spirit Searches Everything.These are his notes. Jerry's introduction here.
Prior to the seminar Fred and Jerry had this conversation.
 
Arthur Bellinzoni led the second of the Saturday discussions with a review of major themes in his new book, The Future of Christianity, can it survive? These are his notes.  Jerry Moyar had a conversation with Arthur prior to publication and here it is. Jerry's introduction of Arthur is here.
 
Cosmological quotes assembled by Jerry
 
 
 
 
Broken Symmetry
 
When we stopped to view this sculpture, Jerry Moyar gave us this background story
 
 
 
Someone put this on a flip chart at a break

During the Science/Religion Seminar

September 7-10, 2006

 

It is important for those of all faiths to recognize these

Four Religious Truths

 

  1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God’s people
  2. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah
  3. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as leader of the church
  4. Baptists do not recognize each other buying wine at Trader Joe’s
 
 The class chat group known as the Forum produced this comment from Jim Pennington:
 
 I think you and your co-interested friends would enjoy Michio Kaku's "Hyperspce" (Anchor, 1994). He's a real physicist and shows how adding a fifth dimension to Einstein's Riemanian four made electromagnetism fall out in a completely natural way without the need for deriving Maxwell's equations from scratch which we did with diffficulty.  In other words, motors, generators, all of electrotechnology--- everything in my field falls out.   The original paper was by Kaluza in the '30s, later mofified by Klein.  When Einstein got it he sat it on it for two years before approving it for publication.  It was that good!

Kaku goes on to later extensions of the same thinking--- quarks and leptons, etc.--- in many ways string theory is the descendent--- 10 or 26 dimensions curled up--- but it hasn't accomplished much and now there's a counter-revolution--- see "The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next," by Lee Smolin, Houghton Mifflin, 2006.  I haven't read it yet.
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