More on Gleiser:
"There is all this stuff that science has discovered, but there are so many questions we still have no clue about. Because nature is so much smarter than we are, we're always playing this game of catch-up," he says. "So I look at science as this kind of flirt with the unknown, and what motivates this spirit of discovery is awe and the joy of being part of this process." --Colin Dwyer, "Marcelo Gleiser Wins Templeton Prize For Quest To Confront 'Mystery Of Who We Are'" at NPRDarwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is not pleased:
Well, once again the canny John Templeton Foundation has awarded its million-pound Templeton Prize to someone who's not a religious figure but a scientist who enables religion and criticizes materialism and atheism. This time the Big Dosh went to Marcelo Gleiser, a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He's a theoretical physicist and also a prolific popular writer, having produced six books, some of which seem to emphasize the limits of science. And that's apparently what he got he Prize for: for adhering to Sir John Templeton's program that science and spirituality (aka religion) were both required to apprehend the "ultimate truths" about the Universe and answer the "Big Questions." --Jerry Coyne, March 19, 2019, "Templeton Prize awarded to physicist for blending science and woo" at Why Evolution Is TrueBut then, in Jerry's books, Templeton can do wrong just doing its job.
See also (Marcelo Gleiser):
- Cosmologist: Parallel universes are pushing physics too far?
- Science sometimes needs to fail so as to advance
- Theoretical physicist: Consciousness is what makes the universe exist
- Marcelo Gleiser On "Absence Of Evidence Is Not Evidence Of Absence."
"I'll keep an open mind because I understand that human knowledge is limited,"
Really!
It was my impression that human knowledge is boundless, subject to further knowledge input to change preconceptions, and to quote Star Treck (loosley) to go where no man has gone before, now that is what I consider real science.
To challenge the unknown, and make it known. Just my impression of how science should be and to bring that knowledge to the masses in a coherent understanding so that all will know and understand.