The panel discussion at Annual Meeting was preceded by videotaped remarks by Sir John Templeton, renowned global investor and philanthropist, a devout Presbyterian, and the sponsor of the annual Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Here are some excerpts: ...
Perhaps our human concepts of God are still tied to a previous century. The twenty-first century after Christ may well represent a new Renaissance in human knowledge, a new embarkation into the concepts of the future....
The [number] of discoveries made in the past two centuries has been greater than in the 40,000 centuries since humans began to walk on the earth....
