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Friday, May 19, 2006

Notes: God & Big Bang - Dr Danny Matt

Kabbalistic Spirituality has much in common with Scientific Cosmology.

Scientific theories give a new way to read Genesis - it causes us 'loose the myth'. Big Band is a contemporary creation story. Gives us a different way to look at Creation. But Science doesn't answer the Purpose or Meaning of Life... that is a spiritual question.

Science - we crave understanding and order in the world. But science doesn't answer the meaning of life.

Spirituality - the inutitive feeling of oneness of the universe. Spirituality offers underlying unity together with diversity to give us direction.

The universe is expanding
God is expanding
There is rhythm to the universe.

Science - Theory of Broken Symmetry - like perfect bunch of pencils all the same size grouped together and held together in perfect symmetry points down. Let go and they fall in a broken and asymmetric pattern. There was symmetry in the origin but now we are in broken symmetry.

Kabbalah - Theory of Broken Vessels - there are devine sparks in everything. God is not a separate entity. God is part of everything. God needs us to help mend the broken world.

Science & Religion compliment each other.

Religion - brings wonder
Science - brings discovery and rediscovery

Interesting lecture beautifully delivered.

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