Michio Kaku’s Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 is a breathless book. In the next hundred years, we’ll approach godlikeness and transcend human limits: “we will be able to manipulate objects with the power of our . . . . Continue Reading »
Jenson summarizes Jonathan Edwards’ critique of substance in Systematic Theology: Volume 2: The Works of God (Systematic Theology (Oxford Hardcover)) (39-41). Edwards targets the mechanization of the world in Newton and Locke, arguing that “Christianity could not long coexist with a . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of days ago, I posted a tweet suggesting that the most basic constituents of reality may not be fixed unchanging bits of stuff but sequences of actions, events. (It was more concise when I tweeted it.) Bryan Johnson wrote to say explicitly what I vaguely knew: “your description of . . . . Continue Reading »
I apologize ahead that this will be a shabby and short posting. However, I am stunned by the implications of what I read in an article in The Telegraph , ” Babies Could be Tested for 3,500 Genetic Faults”. How to give birth to the perfect child? Reject those with genetic . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cambridge Alumni magazine this month has an interview with Professor Simon Conway Morris hos is proposing what the articles describes as a “radical rewriting” of evolution. His theory is that convergence - “the tendency of very different organisms to evolve similar solutions . . . . Continue Reading »
The NYT Book Review has a fascinating review of Bernie Krause’s The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places , which argues that “the healthier the habitat, the more ‘musical’ the creatures, the richer and more diverse their . . . . Continue Reading »
A reader, Mark Kelly, sends along these reflections on the question I raised in a recent First Things column. The remainder of this post is from Kelly: “If you ask any modern to visualise the earth, or draw the earth, you will without exception evoke an exterior view of our planet, outside it . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a couple of days old, but you can find my reflections on this cutting-edge scientific question at http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2011/10/does-the-sun-rise/peter-j-leithart . And don’t miss the fun discussion that ensued in the comments. . . . . Continue Reading »
“The Trinity is a mathematical absurdity in the context of a god limited in his operations to just the four dimensions of length, width, height, and time,” writes Hugh Ross ( The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God ). To avoid the . . . . Continue Reading »
Ted Peters points out the duplicity of genetic determinism: “The growing myth of genetic determinism blows first in one direction: if we are programmed totally by our DAN< then what we think is human freedom is in fact a delusion. Then the myth blows the opposite way: if we can apply our . . . . Continue Reading »
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