Long Range Predictions for Science
Rod Dreher, in The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog, asks readers, "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" Dreher himself says he expects "to see quantum physics lead the way in breaking down the barrier between science and spirituality."
I very much doubt that quantum physics is going to give scientists new insights into spirituality. On the other hand, what insights spiritualists like Rod Dreher will claim to derive from quantum physics is anyone's guess.
I expect to see genetic engineering advances that will enable us to create new species. More controversial will be genetic manipulation of the human genome to create babies with almost any physical traits the parents desire.
2 comments:
The kind of spirituality the ideas of quantum physics most resemble is Zen. Somehow, I don't think that's what Rod-Boy has in mind.
With the ease that Rod Dreher changes religion, he might yet end up in Zen Buddhism. In his own followup comment to his blog post, he says he's interested in "Eastern Christianity (and Eastern thought more broadly)."
On an unrelated note, I found it typically inconsistent of Dreher to direct commenters, "If you answer the question, remember: keep it related to science and technology" but then ignore the standard himself.
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