Dalai Lama plans to quit as Tibet political leader
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7290UK20110310
Dalai Lama plans to quit as Tibet political leader
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7290UK20110310
David Moyer Posted: I am a Christian Engineer/Scientist and I have no problem with conflicts between the facts of science (as opposed to some hypotheses of science) and the teachings of scripture. I know literally dozens of other engineers and people with doctorates in technical fields including medicine, veterinary medicine, biology, etc. who also see no conflict. I was once a staunch evolutionist and I could easily teach a high school or community college course on evolution. There are some aspects of evolutionary theory/hypotheses with which I have no quarrel. But nearly the entire field is a matter of hypotheses with very little of it proven by the scientific method, because so little of it is falsifiable. It certainly does not deserve to be classified as a theory- that is a hypothesis that has been tests by real scientific methods so often that almost no one can devise another test that might disprove it. Remember, that scientific hypotheses are not prov...
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I guess there aren't too many places on earth where the church and the state are ruled from the same office. Iran, perhaps.
It marks a triumph for the reformation/enlightenment idea that faith is a personal practice, but statehood is a societal one. Societal life and order, in this view, may be informed by religious ideals are not subjugated to religious doctrine. How we do this rightly is the subject of ongoing discussion.