Blog Posts
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
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
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
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?
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...
Starting to Think Theologically about Extra-terrestrial Life
In my previous post I reflected on the possibility that our home galaxy may be inhabited by observers like us, who may be looking at planet Earth, who can measure its size, its mass, and even detect the composition of its atmosphere from the light spectrum the latter...
Someone Looking at Us?
For thirty years astronomers have been in hot pursuit of planets outside our solar system. The search for “exoplanets” markedly accelerated since 2006. Today nearly fifty ground-based search projects plus ten space missions have been commissioned. Most of them are...
“In the Beginning …”
Genesis 1:1 is usually translated as “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This traditional rendition, so familiar in the English-speaking world, is an unfortunate mistranslation that misses the true meaning of the Hebrew. The mistake was first...
Science, Covid, and the Future
In the twelve months of the global Covid pandemic, we have learned much about ourselves as a civilization, perhaps even as a species: our vulnerability, for instance, or how to respond effectively to a massive public thread, also about the willingness of many to make...
Relevant Articles
“The Scientific Challenge for the Church in the Work of Arthur Peacocke.” St Mark’s Review 221, no. 3 (September 2012): 14–30.
“Wisdom as the Interdisciplinary Space for Science and Theology.” AEJT 18, no. 3, (2011):211–218.
Other Publications

Human Rights in Crisis
Relying on René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire and the dramatic theology of Raymund Schwager, I examine the fragility and failure of the human rights system when faced with escalating global violence. One of my central concerns is the human condition that makes violence foundational to the social order. I also argue that the human rights crisis is neither an accident nor a shortfall in implementation but the result of subconscious, collective structures of civilization itself. In the theological key, I relate the notion of imitative desire to data of Christian hope enabling the reader to reflect on important questions of human rights from a fresh perspective.
“Jesus’ Path to a New Social Order: Reflections on the Sermon on the Mount.”
“Anatomy of Violence: A psychological reflection with a theological twist” (unpublished research paper).
“Terrorism: Icon of Resentment” (unpublished working paper).
“Hope—Essential and Abundant.” AEJT 15 (January 2010): 1–10.
“The Ambiguity of Human Rights and the Politics of God” (unpublished research paper, 2010).
“The Representational Grounds of Human Mimesis.” (unpublished research paper, June 2020).
“The Church and the Rhetoric of Expulsion.” (unpublished research paper, September 2021)