Скачать или смотреть The Fred Kavli Science at the Frontiers Lecture: Dr. Alan Lightman

Travel with Alan Lightman on a journey through time as he surveys selected high points in the history of science that bear upon philosophical, theological, and ethical issues. The general trend of science over the centuries has been to enlarge the domain of what we call the “physical universe” and to develop a purely material and rational explanation for the phenomena of the physical universe. Dr. Lightman then turns to religion and discusses the kinds of questions that intersect both religion and science, versus the kinds of questions that lie firmly in one domain or the other. He discusses the form of religious beliefs that is compatible with science, and the fact that science and religion have different kinds of knowledge and different methods of obtaining that knowledge. Finally, Dr. Lightman discusses his view that a “spiritual universe” exists in addition to the physical universe, although the former does not necessarily include what we call God. This stimulating and provocative talk is based on essays in Dr. Lightman’s recent book The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew (Pantheon Books).