Creationism is no longer tenable, scientifically, although many still cling to it. This kind of religious 'literalism' can be found in geo-political examples of fundamentalism and particularly in violent, Islamic extremism. If creationism is dead, what do religious people think they mean when they say 'we believe in God, as Creator or Source' in a universe that 'makes itself?' What caused the Big Bang and the Big Birth? How could God be involved, let alone embedded, in natural processes of cosmological and evolutionary change, if divine 'intervention' undermines the vital autonomy of these processes? This trilogy offers a new way of understanding these questions alongside the science of cosmology, physics, quantum and evolution. This book, LE3, focuses on some key moments in the story of our understanding of natural philosophy - and how Darwin's courage challenged so many assumptions about evolutionary teleology. It also touches on the work of Ray, Buffon, Cuvier, Lamarck, Lavoisier, Paley, Malthus, Spencer, Chambers, Wallace, Hooker, Huxley, Sedgwick, Owen, Galton, Gray, Wilkins, Crick, Watson, Franklin, Gurdon, Oparin, Haldane, Dawkins and many others who have so radically changed our understanding of how life evolved and 'makes itself.' Love's Energy explores particular 'pattern paradoxes' of certainty and uncertainty, ontology and epistemology, order and chance in the 'indeterminacy' present in the fascinating story of science and theology. It provides the general and more specialist reader with an opportunity to make new connections between these formative parts of our intellectual map making, and assumptions about the world. In an age when religious dogmatism is intolerant and dangerous, it offers an exciting alternative for people of all faiths - the belief that Love's Energy is the source of cosmological and evolutionary creativity, and embedded in natural processes and relationships.
Author Biography:
Robin Morrison has written novels (Virtual Apocalypse; The Playground; The Photograph; Shadows of Memory, Cobwebs, The Spider, One Leg is Both the Same, The Circus, The Lawn in the Mud, Myfanwy, The Bottom of the Garden) plays and poetry, also available on Amazon. Until retirement he held a national post helping the Anglican Church in Wales with its specialist and policy relationships with communities, organisations, and social, economic and environmental issues in Wales and international work. Prior to that he has been a hospital, university and industrial chaplain, and an Assistant Head of a pioneering Community School in Scotland. He also spent a year studying Church-State relations in Romania, and for some years was part of various East West consultations. He has chaired many bodies, including the Institute of Directors for South Wales and a Health Trust. He is currently a Governor of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Trustee of a Free School and Artes Mundi. He has a continuing interest in the Arts as an expression of the human condition. This Trilogy has taken 12 years to research and included the pleasure of visits to CERN.
