Science
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…would have been far more interesting if malfunctioning computers would always shoot out noisy sparks, flames, and smoke. Like they do in that TV series I mentioned, Another Life. Even though my wife and I had officially abandoned it, I watched another episode and a half by myself because I really wanted to find out what
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I saw this headline on Google News yesterday: Huge New Holes In Siberia Have Scientists Calling For Urgent Investigation Of The Mysterious Craters and immediately thought "Someone will blame it on global warming/climate change." I clicked on it and read the story, at the Huffington Post. Sure enough: The leading theory is that the holes
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As I have written more than once here, one of the two or three most troublesome questions of faith for me is the apparent contradiction between the biblical narrative of paradise and fall, and that put forward by science: millions of years of nature red in tooth and claw, and primitive mankind slowly rising out
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The New York Times has been running an interesting (yes, really) series of interviews on philosophical and religious subjects. It's part of a broader series called "The Stone" (the philosopher's stone? I don't know…) and the interviewer is Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame. The most recent is with Tim Maudlin, another professor
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Because…climate change! (sorry, couldn't resist, in light of the discussion on the previous post, as well as the recent one about climate change)
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Climate change is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy, costly and dangerous, according to a comprehensive federal scientific report released Tuesday. So says the San Jose Mercury-News apropos a new National Climate Assessment report. Perhaps the actual report is not as excited as the journalism, but from what I've seen of headlines today this
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"Searching for Time Travelers Probably A Waste of Time"
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In Commentary, David Gelernter has a sharp critique of philosophical materialism as applied to the human mind that's very much worth reading. Materialism for many scientists has become a sort of religion, a dogma setting the bounds of permissible thinking. You can't really call yourself a Christian if you don't believe in God, and scientist-materialists would have it
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"Space is curved, but not much for everyday life here on earth."
Light On Dark Water 