So I watched Nightline last night and they had the reoccuring series "FaceOff" on. This one featured prominent athiests Sam Harris and skeptic Michael Shermer and Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston on the side of God. I will say it was odd to be rooting for Deepak Chopra - I was.
The basic question was Does God have a future? In our ever changing post religious world...does God have a future in our history and in our identities. For the skeptics and athiests, they believe that the evidence of God such as a "deep knowing" and "experience of the Holy Spirit" or the "presence of something greater than ourselves" are reproducible in the lab by administering drugs like oxytocin and endorphins and brain stimulation.
The other side of the argument said that the evidence for God is that we are creative, intuitive, caring, compassionate, imaginative people and that science cannot replicate that. So for them the future of God is in the hope of never ending creation using all those parts of us to create the future that God has instilled in us. (Both sides agree that as a people we should love and care for each other!)
But here is the interesting part...this debate took place at CalTech in front of an audience of 1000 scientific based folks. And it was so odd to have the skeptic and athiest getting louder applause and agreement than those respresenting the affirmative for God! The loudest applause came when the skeptic Michael Shermer said "it shouldn't be a matter of belief but a matter of common creation, that we care for and about one another and the world we live in."
Catch a glimpse of the debate: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=10174932
Again I ask - who have you shared your faith with lately? Because the future of God depends on how we talk about him and how we are able to reflect him in the world.
Peace y'all!
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