The future will look very different from the past. The Garden of Paradise will culminate in the City of God—“the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. . . . The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. . . . The city does not need the sun or moon . . . . Continue Reading »
Even deterministic materialist systems cannot rule God out. He can break through. Continue Reading »
What we actually encounter in the world isn't “matter” but patterned matter. Continue Reading »
By doing X rather than Y, natural selection conveys information. Continue Reading »
A new book traces the rise of English to its dominant place in scientific discourse. Continue Reading »
Last December, on Christmas Day, the Wall Street Journal printed a commentary by Eric Metaxas entitled “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”. It detailed a startling recent history. Continue Reading »
I’ve long been fascinated by cosmology, although my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really following the arguments of astrophysicists, high-energy particle physicists, and others exploring the origins of the universe. Yet the fascination remains and it was kindled anew by a May 12 article in the Boston Globe Magazine about Alan Guth, a key figure in current explorations of what happened in the Big Bang, the orthodox explanation for How Things Started. Continue Reading »
News flash: Catholics believe in a Creator who actually does something that can be called “creating.” Continue Reading »
The scientific revolution was a revolution in the kinds of questions thinkers were allowed to ask and investigate. Continue Reading »
John Gray skewers the evangelical scientism of Richard Dawkins. Continue Reading »
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