The Awesome Wholeness of Creation

The Awesome Wholeness of Creation

In Cosmos and Revelation, I wrote on page 108: “An astonishing feature of this vast and complex cosmos is its underlying wholeness. What alerts us to this possibility is the absence of solid, measurable building blocks of matter when we look deeper into its structure,...
Beyond the Limits of Language

Beyond the Limits of Language

In his paper to the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Nashville, TN, on November 22, 2000, Neil Douglas-Klotz drew attention to the limits of language when it comes to describing the modern discoveries science, a matter of great relevance for this...
Life — An Abundant Cosmic Phenomenon?

Life — An Abundant Cosmic Phenomenon?

In a preprint of twenty papers accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, the authors present evidence from their study of five proto-planetary discs orbiting young stars about 300 to 500 light years from Earth. The results were astounding. They discovered...
Evolution Before Our Eyes 2

Evolution Before Our Eyes 2

As mentioned in my first Blog on the subject, the Covid-19 virus is learning to fight back, and we have not yet wrestled it to the ground. Meanwhile, new variants have been detected, one is called ‘mu.’ It has caused infections first in Columbia at the beginning of...
Rising Acceptance of Evolution

Rising Acceptance of Evolution

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center of public opinion about science related questions found that the median score for the acceptance of evolution was 74% across 20 countries. Six countries scored below the median — Malaysia (43%), Brazil (54%), India (56%),...
Evolution Before Our Eyes 1

Evolution Before Our Eyes 1

I am referring to the mutations in in the COVID-19 virus from the alpha variant to the more transmissible delta variant and the probability of more to come. This fourth variant is now the dominant variant globally, 40-60 percent more transmissible than alpha. This...
Does Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

Does Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

Scientists have long hypothesized that consciousness may be generated by quantum processes in the brain. Already in the 1990s, two renowned scientists, Stuart Hamerhoff together with Roger Penrose (who later received the Nobel Prize for physics), had put forward such...