I’ve just finished reading The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin. If you are in anyway interested in modern physics then I recommend it. It’s great fun and very thought provoking. To describe the content, I guess Smolin has three or four things going on simultaneously. The motivating theme is his worry over the extreme …
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Science and Grace (13)
OK, I have to finish this before the year is out — I can’t have a book ‘review’ that lasts more than a year. So let’s wind up with an overview of my feelings on Science and Grace… The first great thing about the book are that it asks the right questions. As I have …
Science and Grace (9)
In the next few chapters of Science and Grace, Morris and Petcher turn to look at the actual ‘doing of science’. Before I get into this section, I want to focus on a general issue. I think that the book seriously underplays the value of creation-as-creation. That is, the value of creation simply as a created …
Science and Grace (7)
Bringing together the discussion of God’s relationship with creation some thoughts on miracles, Morris and Petcher propose this definition for a natural law (1): A law of nature is God’s sustaining of, or man’s description of, that pattern of regularity that we observe in nature as God works out His purposes towards His own ends …
Science and Grace (6)
OK, so where have Morris & Petcher got us in the first three chapters of Science and Grace? The current assumptions for science are tightly bound up with Modernism: …modern science grew up as Modernism grew — and came to prominence as perhaps the epitome of the Modern way of thinking. Science has never known …
Science and Grace (5)
Chapter 3 of Morris & Petcher’s Science and Grace looks at Christian ‘dissenters’ of the Enlightenment. The five representatives that they chose are Blaise Pascal, Johann Georg Hamann, Charles Hodge, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd. As elsewhere in the book, the discussions here are very helpful. (Although in a couple of places it took a …
Science and Grace (aside)
Steve Bishop has just posted a review of Science and Grace. So, if you get bored of my extended discussion you can always go and have a look at that & come back when I’ve finished The review concludes with… This is one of the best books on science and Christianity I have read. If …