Look at the judges who award the prizes of the John Templeton Foundation: it's a multi-faith, multicultural board:Twiglet wrote:Could be all about the money. The Templeton foundation, for example, is known to be rather generous to physicists who get God.
"The Templeton Prize – Judges" http://templetonprize.org/judges.html
Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory is hardly winning Brownie points with this crew, given the Omega Point cosmology's Christian theological implications. If Tipler had come out with some namby pamby, mush-headed, milk toast, nebulous New Age syncretism of all religions with a light spattering of physics mixed in, then he would pretty much be guaranteed to win the Templeton Prize.
As the below New Scientist article points out, it's pretty much a gaggle of atheists who nowadays run the John Templeton Foundation:
"Templeton prize is bad news for religion, not science," Michael Brooks, New Scientist, March 25, 2010 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... ws-fo.html
If the John Templeton Foundation's actual intent were to reward scientists who show that science and religion are compatible, then Prof. Tipler would have gotten the Templeton Prize decades ago, as he's the only physicist who has been doing physics research on this subject in a serious manner (i.e., with peer-reviewed physics papers, etc.).
Instead, the John Templeton Foundation is a completely milk toast organization that has no desire to rock any boat. The John Templeton Foundation's version of "religion" has no religion--or God--in it. The Templeton Foundation is the limpest of soggy noodles.