I have an article published over on the Everything Conference website called The Reason for Science. It plays off many of the thoughts I’ve posted here, so you may be interested to take a look…
And maybe book into the conference? With Andy Crouch as main speaker it should be an interesting day.
If you haven’t seen it, the new blog Science and Belief by Ruth Bancewicz is worth looking at. A good starting point is her recent post Intellectual knowledge of God?. When a scientist who believes in God tells the story of their life it really does the question, ‘Can a scientist be a person of …
We need to move beyond compatibility questions and think about how we act as Christians in science. We need to stop bringing up the contentious issues every time the relationship is mentioned and start thinking more widely.
In a recent post, I used this quote from Jeremy Begbie: … humans are not automatons, bound by iron necessity to their environment, but exercise a freedom, an openness that God has granted them. And this itself can be set in a wider context, for such freedom, presuming it is not an illusion, is part …
It’s an on-going debate as to whether maths is discovered or created. I was wondering today if we can find a middle way between these. The sketch of the idea is this… In his book Resounding Truth, Jeremy Begbie emphasises that creation has a flexible order — there is structure but in our development of …
At the end of The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin discusses the character of science. What fascinated me is that he picked out (at least in name) two aspects that I’ve proposed here: namely science as an monastic/ethical and imaginative community. Let’s drop in a couple of quotes here and, hopefully, come back and discuss …
[I apologise in advance, this may be one of the posts that I am unique in finding of value!] OK, lets ponder around an interesting quote from Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics. …there are different ways that physics can be unified, and we should be careful to distinguish them. So far we have been discussing …