SCIENCE FINDING GOD

Interesting piece about scientists increasingly running out of ways to exclude God from creation:

Newer issues, such a biological tensegrity, are breaking new ground in biology, pointing to never before seen aspects, such as cytoskeletons that provide shape to cells with implications that point to issues of community and the need for connection, even at the cellular level. Questions about the very nature of the universe continue to challenge what scientists think they know and point them back again and again to the aspects of a Wholly Other.

I have to say, I have seen *some* evidence of a new openness and acceptance of religious thought among astronomers in the past few years. Most are still atheists or agnostics, but a few have come out of the belief closet in the past three or four years, and some of those who have come out are both prominent and influential. One of them, Alan Sandage, probably has the best pedigree of any living astronomer--he was Edwin Hubble's assistant when Hubble discovered galaxies beyond our own, and therefore the expansion of the universe, which led to Big Bang theory. Sandage is an evangelical Christian, having come to faith directly from his deep knowledge of the universe.

As for Hubble, today's lefty peacenik scientists would have a hard time dealing with him. He was a hawk, and favored pre-emption against Japan in 1939. During the war, he used his scientific abilities to improve the accuracy of US ballistics, and thus played a key role in defeating Hitler and Tojo.

Saddam's (and Bashir Assad's) Baath parties are direct descendants of Nazi ideology, through the Vichy French connection. I suspect Hubble would have had no problem with waging war to strike down Saddam, especially in light of 11 years of futility with UN sanctions.