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Praying Versus Acting


kowalskil

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The following advice is from a prayer book:

 

“Pray as if everything depended upon God, act as if everything depended on you.”

 

I think that this is consistent with the idea of NOMA, formulated by the biologist Stephen Gould. We exist in the material world; God exists in the spiritual world.

 

The context in which the idea of NOMA was formulated is summarized in my article about futile conflicts between theists and atheists:

 

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/theo/atheist.html

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