science is only one layer.

it is 6 degrees BELOW zero this morning in rochester, ny.  i just called my friend and we agreed it was too cold to go running at 6:45am.  before calling, i'd already decided it was too cold to take my dog.  6 below.  i'd say this has to be a record temperature since i moved to rochester in jan2006.  where is that line between too cold and not for a human to conduct prolonged physical activity/exercise outside?  ....for a domesticated animal?

i listened to a radio program this weekend about the morality of nature - or rather, the moral nature of the universe.  the program discussed the existence of both science and god.  the argument, as i understood it, for the ability of god to existence in a scientific world, given there is no objective proof of god, was that because experimental parameters and results, despite all the laws of science, can sometimes be unpredictable, if even unexplained -- therein this uncertainty lies god.  it's not that god IS the uncertainty, or has control over it, rather -- it's just that because there are things that happen in nature that science cannot explain -- then there can just as easily be a god existing in nature that science should not need to explain.

the most interesting concept i gathered from this program is that science is ONLY ONE layer of interpreting the way the world goes round, of interpreting nature.  this is a very nice way to communicate to folks my desire to move from a career IN science to one ABOUT science policy.  science is only one layer of answering the critical questions about how a community, a population, a nation evolves.  in managing chaos, as politics in a democracy attempts to do, the use of science is critical when interpreting what the boundaries should and should not be of exposures, of innovations, of technologies, of energies, of monies, of urban and agricultural planning that are used at ALL levels of society - from a small town community, to a large nation population, to an increasingly integrated world.  aye!

but quickly getting back to a conjoining nature and morality - i am very intrigued.  a goal this week is to thereof invite discussion into my life.

it is now, as the sun is coming up, 7 degrees below zero.  it's getting even colder.  my, what an unexpected, dare i say unnatural, trend.....  (but it could just be a computer glitch...a page not refreshed...indeed).