Beyond Belief

I spent part of this weekend listening to the presentations at BeyondBelief2006 for which all sessions over the two and a half days are available as Flash video. A great resource to have provided and very well done. Ongoing discussion on the Edge.

Amongst the speakers, I was particularly taken with

• Carolyn Porco - the picture of Earth through the back-lit rings of Saturn is just wonderful.
• Harold Kroto - vega science trust
  
• Mahzarin Banaji - Implicit association tests
  
• Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan

Amongst other thoughts provoked by these sessions, I was struck by the observation that it is scientists of all breeds who are most directly trying to understand and pay attention to 'God', whilst the religous and the theologians pay attention to the works of man - the books, the practices, the historical development of religous thought by man.