This is a rather broad field but I should qualify my discussion at the very beginning. I’ll talk mostly about an error which has never been purged from Christian and Jewish thought: the tendency to tie God to the universe as we know it so that the Lord Almighty becomes a super-creature.
This article states the obvious truth about our moral confusion and makes the valid distinction between ends and means. Americans have always been confused about this distinction, often because of the domination of practical reasoning in the American mind. As I point out in my book “To See a World in a Grain of Sand: … [Read more…]
In my blog entry on the debate between Einstein and Bohr on the meaning of reality, I spoke of relationships being primary. It is relationships which bring substance into being, as Bohr was arguing in an obscure way. In a seemingly separate line of arguments in my book “To See a World in a Grain … [Read more…]
Mostly, we owe everything to our Creator, but there seems to be a general human desire to elaborate on even the most obvious truths. Consequently, I am providing a pdf file justice.pdf for the amusement of anyone who might care. The file can be downloaded or read in place using something like Adobe Reader.
God is transcendent and immanent. That is, He lives as a necessary being, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, His own Act-of-being, but He also exists in each and every thing, each and every second of time, each and every volume of space. Not even the emptiest space of our universe could not continue to … [Read more…]
No, I didn’t claim Darwinism is sexy, only that Darwinism is sexual. And it’s more accurate to say evolutionary theory is more sexual than natural, since Darwinism is at least arguably an ideology only accidentally connected to a valid field of study.
God freely chose to create this particular world, objectifying it by way of manifesting certain of His thoughts as a particular set of abstract truths (mathematical and metaphysical) which underly this world and from which this particular world is shaped. And He brought those truths into creaturely being by way of decisions which were freely … [Read more…]
If we Christians do not view paganism rightly, to see the truths it contains in its higher forms and to see why it fails to ascend to the true God, we will fail to understand ourselves, fail to understand God in His transcendance and immanance, and also fail to see the re-paganization of the world … [Read more…]
Years ago, I read about this famous debate in which Bohr spoke of objects coming into existence as quantum waves ‘collapsed’ because of an observation. Einstein refused to believe this could be and spoke as if he were defending common sense. Years ago, I also read “Critique of Scientific Reason” by the philosopher Kurt Hubner. … [Read more…]