我们不需要认为有神的存在，但是我们不妨假设用神这样很模糊的概念，去泛指这样的生物现象里面的复杂的生生不息的创造力，这种创意，这种偶然出现的东西，这种预先发明的器官，还有各种生物机能之间的配合，这样的东西，我们就能够尊敬它，看到演化的奇迹，我们不需要假设有神，也能够为它而迷倒，相信这样的东西是神圣的。

我们不需要认为有神的存在，但是我们不妨假设用神这样很模糊的概念，去泛指这样的生物现象里面的复杂的生生不息的创造力，这种创意，这种偶然出现的东西，这种预先发明的器官，还有各种生物机能之间的配合，这样的东西，我们就能够尊敬它，看到演化的奇迹，我们不需要假设有神，也能够为它而迷倒，相信这样的东西是神圣的。

迈克尔•尼尔森（Michael Nielsen），澳大利亚量子计算科学家。研究领域从量子计算、开放科学到人工神经网络和深度学习。曾供职于洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室（Los Alamos National Laboratory，LANL；前称Y计划，是美国承担核子武器设计工作的两个实验室之一），2004年被授予澳大利亚“Youngest Academic”称号，并获昆士兰大学联邦基金。作者的TED演讲视频：http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_nielsen_open_science_now.html —— ⊙译言·东西文库 东西文库是译言旗下的出版品牌，致力于“科技文化”的思考、传播与交流。已出版《失控》、《技术元素》、《新经济，新规则》、《数字乌托邦》、《颠覆医疗》、《智能时代》、《有限与无限的游戏》等图书。 官方网站：ht...(展开全部)

In "Reinventing Discovery", Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government....(展开全部)

In "Reinventing Discovery", Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government....(展开全部)

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their under...(展开全部)

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their under...(展开全部)

A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.

A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.