Religion and evolution

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26. Beauty

I'm currently reading Steven Weinberg's 'Dream's of a Final Theory'. Even though the author is a self declared reductionist and the book has a whole chapter called against philosophy (arguing mainly against positivism), the book is of course deeply philosophical, talking much about importance of beauty in physics, being of equal importance as empiricism.

As beauty - "which cannot be defined, but known by experience" - together with empiricism is the guiding principle of forming and accepting theories - e.g. Special Relativity and QED were first generally accepted because of their beauty, before convincing empirical evidence... how is the relation between aesthetics, ethics and truth?

Creation as search (and cause?) for new forms of beauty, with all of us participating, does not exclude neither science nor theology.