Related Papers by Stan Klein
The essay Yoking Three Horses to Change the World provides an overview of the Work Group on Science & Spirit. The present version is still a rough draft. The final version should be ready by conference time.
One of the issues involved with the evolution/ID controversy is the ID claim that some major steps in the evolution process are not possible in the time available. The topic of the speed of evolutionary change is very difficult to calculate, but it is likely that in the next 20 years such calculations will become feasible. With that in mind, I'd like to propose a prize of $1,000,000 to the first person to do a credible calculation for likelihood of ape descendents to go to the moon, i.e. calculating the likelihood of the emergence of higher intelligence. The presence of the prize makes many of the issues explicit.
Quantum Mechanics as a Science-Religion Bridge is an article I wrote in connection with the "Future Visions" section of the State of the World Forum of 2000. The topic of the meeting was "Harnessing the Scientific and Spiritual Imaginations to Create a Life Enhancing Future for our World". The first part of the article is a concise overview of Quantum Theory. The last part presents some of the powerful connections between the quantum duality and the science/religion duality.
Free will and God in the quantum world is a brief unedited (by me) interview gives another glimpse into my views on how quantum mechanics is relevant to theology. It also give a glimpse into my view of God. There are several other articles in this link (including ones by V.V. Raman and John Haught) that are worth looking at. You can get a flavor of some Science & Theology News articles.
Whitehead's process ontology is loosely based on early quantum mechanics. Process theology in turn is based on Whitehead. In this 1991 chapter in a Cambridge Univ. Press book I discuss the relevance of the Quantum duality to the mind-body problem and to the multiplicity of theologies problem. A special emphasis is place on the moveability of the quantum split.
For those interested in free will (compatibilist FAPP version) vs. Free Will (ontological version) I recommend going to my two articles on the topic. These were written as commentaries to some other articles in the Consciousness and Cognition issue that focused on Libet and his research on Free Will and on temporal anomalies. Look at the second half of each article. The first will clarify the distinction I make between Free Will and free will and discusses my differences with Stapp. The second will have some more thoughts on emergence (a la Roger Sperry) and the compatibilist position.
And for something entirely different here is a power point presentation given at the IRAS (Institute for Religion in an Age of Science) meeting on Star Island in 2005.