Brian Swimme, a cosmologist, teamed up with Mary Tucker, a religious historian, to connect physics and theology. Josh Rothman contemplates their message:
[P]hysics shows us that the non-living world is incredibly dynamic, surprising, and creative — it's just that the creativity happens over very long scales of time. It's an important fact, they write, that the universe is itself 'set up' for creativity. The universe, they argue, isn't anarchic, meaningless, absurd, or pointless; it's creative in its essence. This should make a difference in the way we think about the meaning of our own lives: By being creative and creating novelty, we're participating in a universe-sized process.
(An intergalactic quilt of the Crab Nebula by Jimmy McBride via David Pescovitz)
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