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Markoff Chaney | 0 comments | 01/03/12
With a noted decline in traditional orthodox beliefs and the rise of alternative spirituality, are more and more people now taking their cue from science to fashion new ways of thinking about God and the transcendent, asks Christopher White? “The new conception of God in the light of all the sciences as the intelligent energy, with many forms but with a single identity that fills the universe, is a thousand times more convincing than our former conceptions of Deity.”` ~ John M. Watson, Science as Revelation
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