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Article: THE NEW CREATIONISTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1988
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The C-word is back. "Creation," long taboo, tainted with the odor
of mysticism, a pariah concept that dared not speak its name, is back
in the vocabulary of science.
I am not talking about so-called "Creation science," the activity
on the part of Christian fundamentalists to prove the literal truth
of Biblical creation, which is not science at all. Rather, I am
talking about a new willingness on the part of physicists,
astronomers, biologists and neurologists to address the issue of how
the world came to be.
Scientists are wresting from philosophers and theologians the
biggest questions of all: Why is there something rather than nothing?
Are the laws of nature unique or necessary? Is life ...