Stephen Friberg

Author's details

Name: Stephen Friberg
Date registered: June 23, 2010

Biography

Stephen Friberg is a Bahá’í living in Mountain View, California. A research physicist by training, he authored Religion and Evolution Reconciled: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Comments on Evolution with Courosh Mehanian. He worked at NTT in Japan before joining the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley.

Latest posts

  1. The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #26: A Task Unfinished — May 13, 2013
  2. The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #25: Freedom, Rousseau and Religion — April 29, 2013
  3. The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #24: Hume, Skepticism, and Religion — April 22, 2013
  4. The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #23: Kant and Religion — April 15, 2013
  5. The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #22: Kant and His “Copernican Revolution” of Philosophy — April 8, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #24: Hume, Skepticism, and Religion — 44 comments
  2. The Validity of Religion and Belief in the Age of Science #5: Is there Evidence for the Existence of God? — 27 comments
  3. The Validity of Religion and Belief in the Age of Science #11: Evolution, Direction, and the Siren Call of Theology — 22 comments
  4. Evolution, Science, and Religion 16: Randomness and the Building Blocks of Nature — 16 comments
  5. Evolution, Science, and Religion 5: Humans and Other Animals — 15 comments

Author's posts listings

May 13

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #26: A Task Unfinished

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá May 13, 2013. Six months ago, I started on a journey of discovery — a journey of learning …

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Apr 29

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #25: Freedom, Rousseau and Religion

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá Apr 29, 2013. Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! The enlightenment theme of freedom resonates as strongly today as it did …

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Apr 22

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #24: Hume, Skepticism, and Religion

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God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá Apr 22, 2013. According to the `Abdu’l-Bahá – the son and successor of the prophet-founder of the Bahá’í …

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Apr 15

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #23: Kant and Religion

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Apr 15, 2013. Immanuel Kant (for the Wikipedia entry, see Kant) is frequently acclaimed the greatest philosopher of …

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Apr 08

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #22: Kant and His “Copernican Revolution” of Philosophy

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Apr 8, 2013. One of the last – and probably the greatest philosopher – of the important enlightenment …

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Apr 01

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #21: Where the Enlightenment Got It Right

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Apr 1, 2013. What was the enlightenment about really? If you believe Kant, it was about learning to …

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Mar 24

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #20: Questions About The Role of Atheism and Deism in Modern Revolutionary Violence

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Mar 27, 2013. I wrote last week’s blog – The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #19: Deism, …

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Mar 18

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #19: Deism, Atheism, and the French Revelation

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Mar 18, 2013. The European enlightenment came to an end in two extraordinary political revolutions. One – in …

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Mar 11

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #18: Two French Atheists – Diderot and d’Holbach

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Mar 11, 2013. In 1911, `Abdu’l-Bahá’, the appointed head of the Baha’i Faith after the death of Bahá’u’llah, …

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Mar 03

The Enlightenment Vision of Science and Religion #17: The First Stirrings of Atheism

The three imposters

God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power — the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge — the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ Mar 4, 2013. The new atheism espoused by hot-selling authors – Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and …

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