{"id":27630,"date":"2013-09-18T06:14:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=27630"},"modified":"2013-09-18T06:26:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:26:28","slug":"hearing-cosmic-harmony-againdan-peterson-delivers-byu-summerhays-lecture-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/hearing-cosmic-harmony-againdan-peterson-delivers-byu-summerhays-lecture-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hearing Cosmic Harmony Again”—Dan Peterson Delivers BYU Summerhays Lecture 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"summerhays\"<\/a>Thursday at 7pm in the JSB Auditorium at BYU, Dan Peterson will speak on how our understanding of the natural world through history has reinforced or weakened belief in God. His title for the 2013 Summerhays Lecture<\/a> is “Hearing Cosmic Harmony Again.” Here is an introduction from the Summerhays Lecture web page<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For many centuries, religious believers of all stripes have affirmed, in the words of the Psalmist, that \u201cThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy work.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, although the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins could still exclaim that \u201cThe world is charged with the grandeur of God,\u201d scientific discoveries had seriously undermined that view\u2013or, at least, were being claimed to have done so\u2013by the time of his too-young death in 1889.<\/p>\n

The serious subversion had begun, or so the story is often told, with the Copernican \u201crevolution\u2019s\u201d dethronement of earth and humans from their privileged place at the center of the universe. It continued, rather ironically, with Sir Isaac Newton\u2019s portrayal of that universe as governed by a remorseless chain of cause-and-effect operating under mathematically rigorous physical laws, and it seemed to have been proven by Darwin\u2019s apparent demonstration that life, in all its varieties, had emerged as a result, merely, of purposeless chance.<\/p>\n

I will attempt to show, with special emphasis on astronomy and cosmology, that this picture of the development of science and its implications\u2013the picture with which I grew up\u2013 is historically misleading at several crucial points, and that some elements of current science suggest that there is still, to say the least of it, plenty of room for theistic conviction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday at 7pm in the JSB Auditorium at BYU, Dan Peterson will speak on how our understanding of the natural world through history has reinforced or weakened belief in God. His title for the 2013 Summerhays Lecture is “Hearing Cosmic Harmony Again.” Here is an introduction from the Summerhays Lecture web page: For many centuries, religious believers of all stripes have affirmed, in the words of the Psalmist, that \u201cThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy work.\u201d But, although the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins could still exclaim that \u201cThe world is charged with the grandeur of God,\u201d scientific discoveries had seriously undermined that view\u2013or, at least, were being claimed to have done so\u2013by the time of his too-young death in 1889. The serious subversion had begun, or so the story is often told, with the Copernican \u201crevolution\u2019s\u201d dethronement of earth and humans from their privileged place at the center of the universe. It continued, rather ironically, with Sir Isaac Newton\u2019s portrayal of that universe as governed by a remorseless chain of cause-and-effect operating under mathematically rigorous physical laws, and it seemed to have been proven by Darwin\u2019s apparent demonstration that life, in all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/summerhays-e1379502254299.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27637,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630\/revisions\/27637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}