Next week I will meet Stuart Kauffman who is author in our first WE edition. He just published his new book “Reinventing the Sacred” and wrote an article in the new scientist: “Why humanity needs a God of creativity!”

The question that currently occupies him is: if selection operates all the time, how do we combine it with self-organisation? He thinks that our current understanding of science and our current use of the word “GOD” might be insufficient and limited … In his article he ends:  “Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of “God”. From it, we can build a sense of the sacred that encompasses all life and the planet itself. From it, we can change our value system across the globe and try, together, to ease the fears of religious fundamentalists with a safe, sacred space we can share. And from it we can, if we are wise, find means to avert wars of civilisations, the ravages of global warming, and the potential disaster of peak oil.”

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