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phosphorescence: the awe, wonder and symmetry that the laws of nature reveal.3
Although Mario Bunge has refuted Einstein’s and Davies’ claims purely on the grounds of “metaphysical speculation,”4 we can neither deny how much awe and wander we feel at the symmetry, asymmetry and mystery of the cosmic scarf nor we can shrink-wrap ourselves in pure formlessness or the physical marketing of consumer ideas and renounce the deepest of human ideals 3⁄4 the eternal, the mystical, the spiritual, the metaphysical 3⁄4 Plato’s Forms’ fountain or Siddhartha’s nirvana. At the height of such ideals, a state of golden awareness exists that propels us to the door of incandescence where it is almost impossible to discern the physical from the metaphysical, the concrete from the abstract and matter from the essence. Beneath this plane, the laws of nature appear to reveal symmetry and asymmetry, philosophy appears to reveal veracity and contradiction but above this plane, the natural becomes supernatural, philosophy fuses with meta-philosophy and it becomes poetry.
3 Davies eloquently proclaims that, “the laws of physics dovetail together with such consistency and coherence that the impression of design is overwhelming.” Peterson, M., Hasker, W., Reichenbach, B., Basinger, D. Reason & Religious Belief. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 77- 106.
4 Peterson, M., Hasker, W., Reichenbach, B., Basinger, D. Reason & Religious Belief. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 77-106.
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