CHARLES TOWNES, NOBEL PHYSICIST, WINS TEMPLETON PRIZE

Another great scientist who gets it:)

Charles Townes, the UC Berkeley professor who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for his work in quantum electronics and then startled the scientific world by suggesting that religion and science were converging, was awarded the $1.5-million Templeton Prize on Wednesday for progress in spiritual knowledge.
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The co-inventor of the laser, Townes, 89, said no greater question faced humankind than discovering the purpose and meaning of life — and why there was something rather than nothing in the cosmos.
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Townes said that it was "extremely unlikely" that the laws of physics that led to life on Earth were accidental.
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"The fact that the universe had a beginning is a very striking thing," Townes said. "How do you explain that unique event" without God?