God, science, and Fr. Thomas Hopko
Thanks to a friend, Father Orthoduck is going to give you a link rather than trying to continue the subject of Christianity and science. Why so? Because the link is to a series of podcasts on Darwin and Christianity by Father Thomas Hopko. Now Fr. Hopko is one of the leading Orthodox theologians in the world. Besides, he is up to 15 podcasts on this subject alone, and he has many many more on various... [Read more]
The god of the gaps
A person who commented on yesterday’s post had some things to say with which I agree, even though s/he meant them as a criticism. Nevertheless, it does allow me to make a couple of points. Speaking of religious scientists s/he said: There’s only a problem when they invoke god, also known as magic, to solve scientific problems. That’s not doing science. It’s called preaching. Competent... [Read more]
Posted by Fr. Orthoduck on Saturday, August 7, 2010privacy
Tags: creationism, philosophy
Current cosmology and the Church
As I commented yesterday, the Church has often had a hard time knowing how to respond to advances in cosmology. There has been a tendency to go to one of two extremes. One extreme is that most often cited by the news media, the Galileo trial and the Scopes trial, one by the Roman Catholic Church and one by fundamentalist Protestants. In each case, the church people involved claimed to be defending... [Read more]
Current cosmology and God
Today, atoms make up about 5% of the universe; dark matter makes up about 23%; and what is very strange is that 72% is made up of this dark energy. — David Spurgo, Ph.D. In the last century we have come up from thinking that the entire universe was within our own Milky Way to knowing that there are actually billions of other galaxies like the Milky Way, but separate from us. We now even... [Read more]
St. Augustine on numbers
“Numbers are the universal language given to us by the deity as confirmation of the truth.” ~ St. Augustine Numbers are interesting. Provided that you know the base number, you can do an infinite number of calculations. Much of reality can be described by a set of mathematical equations. There is an inherent beauty in the symmetry of numbers present in both physics and astronomy. In fact,... [Read more]
