Physicist Wins Spirituality Prize
US scientists battle over anti-Darwin "Intelligent design" theory

>adagio wrote:
>So, let's say all is pre-designed and pre-determined, and all we are left to do is to find out this intelligent designer's plan for us, to find out our pre-determinded fate, boy, does that make you feel below-human? One would feel like a pre-designed robot, wouldn't he? Will he be disassembled later or will he be thrown into fire to produce a new piece of iron?
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>Like I said before, accepting an above-all God/intelligent designer is simply a dead end to any human intellectual endeavors. How boring. How depressing.

Your mistake is to think that we are separated from this Intelligent Designer, and there is a "He" outside and beyond each of "us". Of course you would feel boring and depressing. But this is simply not true. I'd think that the path is to find the God in each of us, and to marvel how intelligent we are. And in admiring the design, we are admiring ourselves, and this leads to eternal love. Religions also teach us that we are all God.

I think, knowing that we are the designer and then set out to discover the plan, is the most exciting, inspiring and rewarding human intellectual endeavor one can possibly take.

>Why not leave science alone doing what it's been doing in discovering laws in the physical world, and leave religion to the metaphysical adventures in people's mind? Telling scientists what they ought to find is indeed an insult to their intellect.

Only when science recognizes its proper position in the universe, physical and metaphysical, can we leave it alone to do its own discovery. Otherwise science hurts, especially those weak-minded people.

不知道为什么我对今天的科学这么反感。:(

3/8/2005
我 高中的物理老师说我数理化那么差（那年我数学不及格，考了32分），干脆去学音乐好了。我不服气，就跑去学物理，一学就学了十多年。那个老师一定早就不记 得有我这个人了。他之前那个物理老师又高又帅又风趣，女朋友是个漂亮的空姐。我们都喜欢上他的物理课，跟他开玩笑。其实我的物理老师最多了。大学的几个教 授都木木呆呆的，算题还不如我算得准算得快。研究生时跟过三四个物理导师，嫌我笨嫌我懒，都把我开除了。本来我挺喜欢 物理的，后来就反感了。气人！就等着哪天我出名了，回去让这些从来不曾带给我灵感和激情的物理老师都好好自我检讨一番。哼！

3/9/2005
>little wrote:
>不是想耸人听闻，只是觉得物理和其他行业一样，受到职业化的“污染”。好多物理学家的心灵中，往日的激情不在，只在饭碗的压力下求活路，日常的产出，好的话淡而无味，不好的话面目狰狞，教学子怕怕。
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>但有个性的物理学家，其魅力无挡！ 远的有费曼，近的有霍金。看看他们的书，便可领略到他们的激情。

物理和艺术都是一种宗教，是要有狂热的激情才能做的。现在世界上有激情的人太少了，个个都是工程师工匠 (technician)：文艺工匠，科学工匠，。。

我见过眼睛发光的科学家。我见过对知识狂热的人。见到了就爱上了。（说到这里我自己的激情都上来了。）

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