[MD] Ideas and Gods

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Excellent quote from Sheldrake. The scientific theory that all consists of 
matter and energy consists of neither matter nor energy. 


On 27 Apr 2010 at 20:18, Jon Bennett wrote:

> Rupert Sheldrake puts it like this,
> 
> "Although many people no longer believe in such a God, his universal laws
> have survived him to this day. But when we pause to consider the nature of
> these laws, they rapidly become mysterious. They govern matter and motion,
> but they are not themselves material nor do they move. They cannot be seen
> or weighed or touched; they lie beyond the realm of sense experience. They
> are potentially present everywhere and always. They have no physical source
> of origin. Indeed, even in the absence of God, they still share many of his
> traditional attributes. They are omnipresent, immutable, universal, and
> self-subsistent. Nothing can be hidden from them, nor lie beyond their
> power."