Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00030)

A friend of mine told that, having seen the programme "The Colours of
Infinity"( in which Arthur C. Clarke explains Fractal Geometry and the
Mandelbrot Set), how he caught a glimpse of  a possible convergence of
viewpoints of the scientist and the religious explorer.
I offered to collect for my friend whatever information I could from the
Internet.
I quote from what I found at www.the- spa.com/ed.stutsman/iter.htm:
"So while the mathematicians ponder fractals, scientists apply fractal
boundaries to their data, us common folk have a harmony with their
method, their vision.
This common ground should not go unnoticed.
There seems to be a commonality of language that expresses what is found
at the frontiers of knowledge, be it physics or religion..This does not
mean that there is a commonality of what is investigated, but only of
the way it is expressed.
But "the way in which it is expressed" is us, us humans, trying to
understand our world.
In this, the religious explorer is united with the scientist.
And, as the Dalai Lama has said on many occasions..getting to know the
world is practice, science is practice.
If you take the cold reality of science and subject it to the warmth of
the religious outlook, then a pattern of ethics emerges..You know what
to do..And you can be assured of the resonance of your choice between
reason and religion.
Any comments or suggested sources of information would be appreciated;
particularly the procuring of a copy of  "Colours of Infinity"
Phil.Greenfield@xtra.co.nz