Category Archives: SOSc

Apparently as physicists work on models describing earlier and earlier moments of the Universe, they’re realizing that there might be some worth in talking with theologians. It’s happening in an informal way at an event organized by people from CERN. … Continue reading →

Well, perhaps what the Higgs couldn’t deliver on, the BaBar experiments might. Essentially detectors are seeing too many heavy particles – something that the Standard Model can’t explain. Continue reading →

One of my favorite bloggers, Mark Vernon, has a short essay up today talking about how Richard Dawkins, the uber-atheist, is, at his core, a maker of cosmic mythology. Continue reading →

This is not something to be worried about – it’s something to be excited by. It means that there’s a chance that we might, by the pursuit of the unanswerable question, find out something new (to us) about God and God’s purposes in Creation. Continue reading →

The exciting news today is that a team of mathematicians centered at the University of Vermont have started to describe something that they call an autocatalytic set; essentially a group of things that automatically transform on their own without the need of an external catalytic mechanism. Continue reading →

Fr. Richard Rohr writing in Huffington Post about a year ago makes the point that the Abrahamic faith groups make much of the fact that the Holy One created everything that is, and breathed life into all of it, animating it with God’s spirit. And because it is animated by the Spirit of God, it effectively becomes a part of God’s body, a form of the Incarnation. And we Abrahamic faith types often forget that to our peril. Continue reading →

There’s an interesting essay in the Atlantic. It’s about how people who no longer believe in the major faiths are creating a new one based in a belief that technology has God-like powers to bestow blessings upon us. Space exploration, the pinnacle of the technological enterprise is the acme of human expression. Belief in space exploration is the primary expression of the new “faith”. Continue reading →

Couldn’t really pass this one up, could I? New Scientist, a well respected more technical version of Scientific American has devoted an entire issue to the question of how Science and Religion can speak with one another Continue reading →

Lucas Mix, a friend of mine here in Arizona and so brilliant he makes my head hurt (heh) has taken up a lenten discipline of daily blogging. (Lucas btw is one of the people who finally convinced me that I might actually be accepted a member of the SOSc.) He’s been writing for the past week on the ways we can think about concepts in a scientific worldview and about how we can think through the same things in a theological view. Today’s post on “time” goes a step beyond that. And discusses vampire curses at the end… Continue reading →