Inventor of Laser awarded Templeton Prize

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Dr. Charles Townes, a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to invent the laser, added another and most unusual prize to a lifelong storehouse of honors yesterday. In a news conference at the United Nations, he was announced as the winner of the $1.5 million Templeton Prize, awarded annually for progress or research in spiritual matters.

Dr. Townes, 89, a longtime professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has long argued that those old antagonists science and religion are more alike than different and are destined to merge.

"Understanding the order in the universe and understanding the purpose in the universe are not identical, but they are also not very far apart," he wrote in a seminal paper titled "The Convergence of Science and Religion," published in 1966 in the IBM journal "Think."

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His insights are interesting to be sure. This article is a bit on the weak side, the usatoday is better. I find it interesting when brilliant scientists also embrace "God". Recently a member said that there were no "real" scientists who were religous. Of course that was false, but this is just a sniglet of the ones that are. Interesting the prize is larger than the Nobel.

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I am one to believe that if all methods of scientific discovery were employed to an infinite amount, science would inevitably uncover the existence of a supreme power, some of whom call "God".