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The Two Cultures,Humanities and Science,
Making Meaning Together
By Dr. Harold Williams
of Montgomery College Planetariumhttp://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/
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Some Possibilities• Faith in Science?
http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/FaithInScience/home.html
• Navigating Uncertainty http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/NavigatingUncertainties/home.html
• Knowledge and Wisdom• Bioethics • Can Northern European Men do Science?
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Science and Humanities Questions
• Do atoms exist?
• Does God or Gods exist?
• Does the answer to either question matter to you?
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Quantum Mechanical He atom
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4He atom with two yellow electrons two, two pink protons,
and two gray neutrons
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Helium atom explained
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Explained_Atom.svg
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Some indications atoms exist• Science text book says so, not acceptableScience text book says so, not acceptable
• Dalton’s observation of definite ratios in Dalton’s observation of definite ratios in chemical reactionschemical reactions
• William CrookesWilliam Crookes, Cathode ray and Spinthariscope
• 1905 Brownian motion, Albert Einstein
• 1911 Particle scattering, Ernest Rutherford
• Model work to explain so much
• But no human has ever seen an atom
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Creation of the Sun and Moon Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo di
Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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God Really
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God does not seem to be
• Summons able like atoms
• Lets try
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He did not show
• Either She does not exist,• Or is not at my beck-and-call.• Personally I am glad She did not appear.• I would not want you in the audience
declared religious schizophrenias, • and I am not interested in a personality cult
built around my summoning ability.• If She does exist She must be merciful to
me.