In Both Religion And Science, Some People

So There’s A Kind Of Resurgence Of The Sense Of Freedom And Spontaneity In Nature. From Nature Being Bound Into A Rigid, Deterministic Model, Freedom, Spontaneity And Openness Are Emerging Once Again. It’s Now Recognized The Future Is Open, Not Determined By The Past. And This Is True In Many Realms, The Astronomical Realm, The Human Realm, The Meteorological Realm In Many Ways.

I Went Through The Standard Scientific Atheist Phase When I Was About 14. I Bought Into That Package Deal Of Science Equals Atheism.

In Practice, The Goal Of Skepticism Is Not The Discovery Of Truth, But The Exposure Of Other People's Errors. It Plays A Useful Role In Science, Religion, Scholarship, And Common Sense. But We Need To Remember That It Is A Weapon Serving Belief Or Self-interest; We Need To Be Skeptical Of Skeptics. The More Militant The Skeptic, The Stronger The Belief.

The Cumulative Nature Of The Evolutionary Process, The Fact That Memory Is Preserved, Means That Life Grows Not Just Through A Random Proliferation Of New Forms, But There's A Kind Of Cumulative Quality.

I Have Been A Scientist For More Than 40 Years, Having Studied At Cambridge And Harvard. I Researched And Taught At Cambridge University, Was A Research Fellow Of The Royal Society, And Have More Than 80 Publications In Peer-reviewed Journals. I Am Strongly Pro-science.