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A Novelist and an Astrophysicist Walk Into a Bar…


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Anna Williams

11/16/12

 

. . . Well, not a bar: They actually walked into the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for a discussion hosted by the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry and broadcast on the radio show “On Being.” The novelist was Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, Housekeeping, Home); the astrophysicist, Dartmouth’s Marcelo Gleiser.

 

Their conversation with show host Krista Tippett covers (among other topics) science, religion, creation stories, and the much-sought Theory of Everything. Marilynne Robinson speaks about our loss of a sense of origins:

 

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Gleiser’s comment about teleology’s “traps” put me in mind of Thomas Nagel’s attempts to account for nature’s apparent teleology without God. If you’re interested in more on this topic, John Haldane wrote about Nagel’s new book Mind and Cosmos in our December issue and Edward Feser discussed it last month On the Square.

 

 

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