Category Archives: Science

From Outer Space to Inner Space

Here are two truly phenomenal videos.  The first asks two basic questions about the universe, and can only say, “we don’t know.”  The best take-away quote from the video for me was this: “We just might be undergoing the biggest … Continue reading

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What Can We Learn From Schleiermacher?

It is tautological in many confessional Lutheran circles that Schleiermacher is the source of all that is wrong in modern theology.  Few incur the invective of late 19th and early 20th century confessional Lutheran theologians as Schleiermacher does. His emphasis on the … Continue reading

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How To Think About God

Adler, Mortimer Jerome. How to Think about God: A Guide for the 20th-century Pagan* ; *one Who Does Not Worship the God of Christians, Jews, or Muslims ; Irreligious Persons. New York: Collier, 1991. Print. In this seminal work by Adler, … Continue reading

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You Can’t ‘Prove’ God

An interesting quote from Dean L. Overman’s Evidence for the Existence of God (Rowman and Littlefield: 2009): There are real limits to any formal reasoning system attempting something in the nature of a mathematical proof.  Science and faith share a … Continue reading

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Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?

What is it about quantum mechanics that has drawn the attention of so many normally not interested in hard science?  Physics professor Alastair Rae explains in this short book.  Rae describes, first, the experiments which have verified the essentials of … Continue reading

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Richard Bell on Mind and Matter

Theologian and scientist Professor Richard Bell argues that quantum theory supports the idea that the universe is a representation upheld by and in the consciousness of its inhabitants. This, of course, is an area of research that has long fascinated … Continue reading

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