Allister McGrath - unser bester Mann!

[Norton]

Facts
Øystein Elgarøy (born 1972) is a professor in Astrophysics.
He was only 27 years old when he did his Ph.D. a work he received H.M. the King's gold medal for.
Elgarøy had by then published eleven scientific works. In 2004 he received Fridtjof Nansen's award for younger scientists.


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Oystein Elgaroy -
the Christian defender who became an Atheist



A short while ago professor of astrophysics Øystein Elgarøy was a profiled liberal Christian who defended his faith in articles and at debates. But then he discovered that he actually agreed more with his opponents.

The first time the undersigned got acquainted with Øystein Elgarøy was at a debate about faith and science at a pub in Oslo, autumn 2005.

Elgarøy sat there with all his ballast as a professor of astrophysics and assured the audience that there are no conflicts between his field of research and God's existence. On the contrary, what we know of the cosmos points to there in fact being a god, he thought. The arguments from the Atheists in the panel, among others professor of biology, Dag Hessen, bounced off.

A little later, in 2006, the book "Tro og vitenskap – sammenheng eller sammenstøt"("Faith and science – connection or conflict") was released by the Christian publisher Lunde Forlag. Elgarøy contributed here too, and there was no doubt that his answer to the title was "connection".

– There is a beautiful symmetry and simple laws that govern nature. [...] Where I see God's hand clearest is in the beauty of these laws of nature, said Elgarøy in the interview he gave together with the nun and astrophysicist Katrina Pajchel in the beginning of the book.

But all this happened before he one Sunday in January this year heard a debate between the Atheist Christopher Hitchens and the theologian Alister McGrath.

Most in agreement with the opponent
– Suddenly I realized that it was much easier to agree with Hitchens than with McGrath. To put it short, I agreed more with the person I should disagree with. I then realised that I had to take the consequence of this. I could no longer live on an illusion. You might say that this Sunday became a turning point of sorts, Elgarøy says to Fritanke.
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read on, my dear:
Richard Dawkins Net
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Die Debatte war schon ein ziemliches Schlachtfest, aber dass sich ein Professor von Hitchens überzeugen lässt seine Heilslehre zu verlassen verwundert dann doch, denn eigentlich hätten ihm die Gegen-Argumente geläufig sein müssen.

[Wackee]

Ich glaube das hat mit den Argumenten weniger zu tun als mit diesem gewissen "klick" im Kopf, der einem ermöglicht seine bisherige Denkweise objektiv zu analysieren und daraus (eigene) Konsequenzen zu ziehen.
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"If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!" - Zapp Brannigan

[Dr. Benchmark]

[Norton]