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Dec. 28, 1992: From the Publisher
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 28, 1992 What Does Science Tell Us About God?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> Our end-of-the-year covers over the past two decades have
been a fairly eclectic mix of both the sacred (Mother Teresa, the
Virgin Mary) and the profane (Big Cars, Bart Simpson). Breaking
news provided the selections in between. This year our cover is
temporal...that is, scientific, but with God undeniably in
the details. It is a rigorous examination of how science and
religion are intersecting at the end of the century, how the
achievements of modern science just might be reinforcing
religious faith rather than undermining it. To pull off such a
challenging assignment, we chose Robert Wright, a science writer
whose column "The Information Age" for The Sciences magazine won
the 1986 National Magazine Award for essays and criticism.
Wright, now a senior editor at the New Republic, has benign
memories of his first experience as a writer for TIME. "The
editors were astonishingly tolerant of my stylistic
idiosyncrasies," he says. "I had assumed I would be brutalized,
but I wasn't." While calling himself "a fairly hard-core
scientific materialist," Wright adds, "but I do like to think
there is more to this universe than meets the eye." In somewhat
the same vein, one admiring critic has described him as "a
science writer fighting off a nasty case of existential dread."
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<p> Our intent, of course, is not to define Wright's beliefs
but to help readers understand the evolving relationship
between the spiritual and empirical worlds. To help that
process, associate editor Richard N. Ostling has written a piece
accompanying the main story that tells of working scientists of
various faiths who are perfectly willing to affirm their belief
in God the Creator.
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<p> At the end of each year since 1927, we at TIME have named
the Man of the Year, that person who, for better or worse, has
had the most impact on the year's events. For an advance (and
very inside) briefing on the 1992 choice, tune to CNN on
Saturday, Dec. 26, at 9 p.m. EST. "It is our mission," says CNN
executive producer Stacy Jolna, "to keep TIME's secret safe and
to translate the Man of the Year cover story into a compelling
television production." Working with Jolna was a special "SWAT
team" of half a dozen secret operatives who spent the past three
weeks culling the best sound and pictures from thousands of
hours of videotape to put together this year's show. Viewers
will learn not only the identity of the 1992 Man of the Year
but also how he (or she) was selected and who the runners-up
were.
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