I am a big fan of Joan of Arcadia, mainly because Barbara Hall, the writer, understands my questions about what color socks God wears, what God does for fun, if God were a tree, what kind of tree would God be? Those questions aren't asked all that often, even by folks who are very pro-God. And the universe is generally treated more as an artifact than as the face of God.
Two points seem worth noticing about the universe. It is very big and maintains complexity into its very smallest parts - and most of what it does seems to have nothing much to do with human beings. Also, the one chunk of the universe that humans have any real experience with -- the body -- is understandable in two quite distinct ways-- mentally and physically. Neither account gets the whole story and neither account reduces to the other.
That all might suggest something about what there is to understand.
Posted by shea0017 at May 25, 2004 8:59 AM