Without a doubt, we are children of our age. There have been indications that the young folk with higher IQs tend to drift away from Christian and Jewish belief and practice. The interesting exception in some of those studies is the Church of the Latter-day Saints. I’ve read lightly, but substantially by current standards, in … [Read more…]
I’ve started rereading Science and Creation by John Polkinghorne, the physicist at Cambridge University who left his professorship to enter an Anglican seminary before returning to Cambridge as a chaplain and administrator. Father Polkinghorne is quite polite to those who denigrate natural theology and to those who simply question what natural theology can really tell … [Read more…]
In a recent short post, Not Probabilistic Smudges but Relationships, I jumped the gun and said: In James Gleick’s biography of Richard Feynman, Genius, he refers to an early theory developed by Feynman and John Wheeler as “a classical theory, not a quantum one. It treated objects as objects, not as probabilistic smudges.” Mr. Gleick … [Read more…]
This article, Rebalancing the Nuclear Debate Through Education, tells us: Better physics teaching with a particular emphasis on radioactivity and radiation science could improve public awareness through education of the environmental benefits and relative safety of nuclear power generation, according to leading Brazilian scientist Heldio Villar. He suggests that it might then be possible to … [Read more…]
In James Gleick’s biography of Richard Feynman, Genius, he refers to an early theory developed by Feynman and John Wheeler as “a classical theory, not a quantum one. It treated objects as objects, not as probabilistic smudges.” Mr. Gleick is speaking in terms of concepts of mainstream thinkers in physics and I’m not criticizing him, … [Read more…]
Slowly do I move forward in my efforts to develop words and grammatical structures and concepts adequate to describing the social and moral setting of man as he learns to shape himself, his societies, his technologies, to better reflect and take advantage of the richness and complexity of God’s Creation. This richness and complexity can … [Read more…]
I’m no expert on stem-cell therapy research and I won’t try to say too much, but anyone who thinks miracles are guaranteed by any form of stem-cell therapy, morally acceptable or otherwise, should read this mostly optimistic but realistic article, Carving the Neural Stem Cell ‘Niche’ . Researchers have known for a while that many … [Read more…]
[The original version of this essay was published at The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 5. The Einsteinian Universe. It was finished and uploaded on 2007/02/24. This version includes some changes made for the approaching publication of a collection of most of my weblog entries over the past 5+ years.] Einstein gave a great … [Read more…]
[The original version of this essay was published on the as The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 4. The Cosmos of Thinkers Prior to Einstein. It was finished and uploaded on 2007/02/06. This is a slightly corrected version which will be included in a collection of weblog entries I’ll be making available before many … [Read more…]
[This entry was originally published as The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 1. An Overview on 2007/01/11. This is a slightly corrected version which will be printed under the current title, Why I Misuse the Term ‘Universe’ in my upcoming collection of weblog writings to be published as a big ebook.] In my book … [Read more…]