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The Two Cultures, Humanities and Science, Making Meaning Together

The Two Cultures, Humanities and Science, Making Meaning Together. By Dr. Harold Williams of Montgomery College Planetarium http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/. Some Possibilities. Faith in Science? http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/FaithInScience/home.html

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The Two Cultures, Humanities and Science, Making Meaning Together

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  1. The Two Cultures,Humanities and Science,Making Meaning Together By Dr. Harold Williams of Montgomery College Planetarium http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/

  2. 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?

  3. Science and Humanities Questions • Do atoms exist? • Does God or Gods exist? • Does the answer to either question matter to you?

  4. Quantum Mechanical He atom

  5. 4He atom with two yellow electrons two, two pink protons, and two gray neutrons

  6. Helium atom explained • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Explained_Atom.svg

  7. Some indications atoms exist • Science text book says so, not acceptable • Dalton’s observation of definite ratios in chemical reactions • William 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

  8. Creation of the Sun and Moon Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

  9. God Really

  10. God does not seem to be • Summons able like atoms • Lets try

  11. 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.

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