Changes

powerfully with our vision of what lies at the core of science:

powerfully with our vision of what lies at the core of science:

<blockquote>‘The famous question at the roots of [[metaphysics]] is: “Why should there not be nothing?” ’

<p>‘The famous question at the roots of [[metaphysics]] is: “Why should there not be nothing?” ’

(152) ‘Today, mathematical models proclaim access to the origins of the present [[universe]].

(152) ‘Today, mathematical models proclaim access to the origins of the present [[universe]].

Molecular [[biology]] may have in reach an unravelling of the thread whose beginning is that

Molecular [[biology]] may have in reach an unravelling of the thread whose beginning is that

of life. Nothing in these prodigious conjectures disarms, let alone elucidates, the fact that

of life. Nothing in these prodigious conjectures disarms, let alone elucidates, the fact that

the world is when it might not have been, the fact that we are in it when we might, when

the world is when it might not have been, the fact that we are in it when we might, when

we could not have been.’ </blockqoute>

we could not have been.’</p>

But what is science? In Steiner’s terms it is men and women extending the cortesia of welcome to

But what is science? In Steiner’s terms it is men and women extending the cortesia of welcome to

matter and spirit, between man and “the other” ’. (227) The echoes with our view of science are

matter and spirit, between man and “the other” ’. (227) The echoes with our view of science are

loud and clear.

loud and clear.

==Section 5==

==Section 5==

Although structured in three parts, Real Presences in [[fact]] consists of three movements and a coda

Although structured in three parts, Real Presences in [[fact]] consists of three movements and a coda