Published 3-16-2016 The trio of gifted scientists beginning with Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell ends with Albert Einstein, the 20th century contributor to the revolutionary “field” concept. Einstein, who…
Published 3-11-2016 The popular excitement generated by the detection of gravity waves (more accurately gravitational waves) in February 2016 has inspired popular broadening of interest in science as it molds…
Published 3-7-2016 “Every child starts out as a natural born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm…
Published 3-2-2016 Brilliant theologian Thomas F. Torrance passed into eternity in 2007. We imagine that Torrance would have experienced exuberant enjoyment at the recent scientific detection of gravity waves. He…
Published 2-26-2016 My maternal grandfather was born in Switzerland in 1860. I enjoy informing friends that my direct ancestor, only two generations removed from me, was born before the American…
Published 2-19-2016 The recent detection of gravitational waves highlights not merely one, but two of the greatest scientists in history and the startling intersections of their respective discoveries. Many news…
Published 2-14-2016 The world has been in the grip of gravity in recent days. Of course, each moment of our lives we experience the physical grip of gravity. But lately…
Published 2-9-2016 “Be fruitful and multiply” has multiple implications. The scripture mandate of Genesis 1:28 does not list detailed concomitants of healthy population multiplication. Our knowledge of the intellectual abilities…
Published 2-4-2016 One look at the world’s population explosion in the last two centuries provokes concern. Over seven billion souls inhabit the planet, six billion more than the world population…
Published 1-30-2016 One of the most powerful scripture verses occurs in the first book of Genesis. God said to his newly created humanity, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the…