{"id":27444,"date":"2021-05-05T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27444"},"modified":"2021-05-03T21:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:18:02","slug":"wednesday-reflection-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-39\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>5<sup>th<\/sup> May 2021<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever hear the story of the extremely clever student of philosophy who sat down to breakfast with his dad?\u00a0 His mum brought them in tea, toast and two boiled eggs.\u00a0 The university student said to his dad, \u201cI can prove to you that there are four metaphysical eggs in that bowl.\u00a0 Whereupon his dad, an ordinary hard-working man, said, \u201c Well I\u2019ll eat these two eggs and you can eat the metaphysical eggs!\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes students confuse facts and theories.\u00a0 A fact is that which is.\u00a0 A theory is that which could be\u2026.or may not be.<\/p>\n<p>As a young student, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, became convinced that in searching for truth the philosopher and the scientist were searching for God\u2026.whether they realised it or not.\u00a0 Perhaps that is borne out in Albert Einsein, the theoretical physicist, known for developing the theory of relativity and for important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.\u00a0 A self-proclaimed agnostic, yet he wrote, \u201cScience without religion is lame\u2026.God\u2026.created the world according to an orderly plan.\u00a0 It is the scientist\u2019s task to discover it.\u201d\u00a0 Pascual Jordan also a physicist and co-founder of quantum mechanics, began talking of a \u2018creator-God.\u2019 Astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington stated, \u201cModern physics leads us necessarily\u00a0 to God, rather than away from God. \u201dNobel Prize winner, Max Planck declared, \u201cFor the believer God is at the beginning and for the physicist, he is at the end of all thinking.\u201d\u00a0 I could go on but you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not that science and religion contradict\u00a0 each other.\u00a0 They do not.\u00a0 They go together like fish and chips, salt and pepper, bacon and eggs!\u00a0 One last amusing but touching quote. This from another physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Werner Heisenberg.\u00a0 \u201cA first drink from the glass of natural science makes you atheistic but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection \u00a05th May 2021 Did you ever hear the story of the extremely clever student of philosophy who sat down to breakfast with his dad?\u00a0 His mum brought them in tea,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-39\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions\/27446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}