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Welcome! At Signs and Wonders we sift through the World Wide Web looking for evidence of emerging religious futures. Our mission is to provide our readers -- religious futurists, ministers, and just plain spiritual people -- with a guided tour of the web, stopping wherever we see the future of faith unfolding before our eyes. We update this site every three days or so, so come back again and join us on our next trip. If you want to comment on anything you read here or discuss religious futures in general, come over to our forum. |
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May 19, 2000 [feature] -- Freeman Dyson addresses progress in religion by Cody Clark at 7:35 AM (EST)  Templeton Award Winning Physicist Freeman Dyson adresses religious progress in the information age in Edge magazine: "The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. Scientists and business leaders who care about social justice should join forces with environmental and religious organizations to give political clout to ethics. Science and religion should work together to abolish the gross inequalities that prevail in the modern world. That is my vision, and it is the same vision that inspired Francis Bacon four hundred years ago, when he prayed that through science God would "endow the human family with new mercies". [social] -- Emerging religious structures. by Cody Clark at 7:49 AM (EST) An older essay on the future of religious structures: "The emergence of a "sacred canopy" perhaps analogous to "civil religion" in America--a consensus reality that factors in the relativity of traditions, each of which claims nevertheless to be exclusive--can enable us to live together without mutual assured destruction. The American experiment is the laboratory in which the planet earth is testing this possibility. " editor -- An older piece. Ancient by web standards. But I think the conclusions still are relevant. |
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