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April 2023

April 29, 2023

Atheism before the firing squad?

The estimable Jeff Lindsay has penned an enthusiastic book recommendation: "Relational Faith: An...

March 2023

March 07, 2023

A sentient puddle comes out in favor of cosmic “fine-tuning”

Recently, I've published four blog posts -- see my "An initial survey of...

March 01, 2023

Three More “Local Planetary Conditions”

I now resume my appropriation, for my own nefarious purposes -- focused, as...

February 2023

February 11, 2023

“Local” Planetary Conditions

I carry on now with my appropriation, for my own undoubtedly wicked purposes,...

January 2023

January 23, 2023

An initial survey of the “four fundamental forces” and the “cosmological constant”

I've long been interested in what are called "fine-tuning" arguments for the existence...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

An Atmosphere of Gratitude and Grounds for Appreciation

I wrote these two newspaper columns for Thanksgiving 2019: As we in...

April 2022

April 02, 2022

A quite congenial galaxy

*** Among the most interesting living writers on religion and science is...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Life in a Finely-Tuned Cosmos

*** Some time back, I read Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A....

April 2021

April 21, 2021

Some thoughts on inferring a designer

*** But, first: A few of my odd but obsessive anonymous...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

“Cosmic Conundrum”

Okay. If I havn't been clear enough yet, let me make it unmistakably...

October 2020

October 18, 2020

“A more beautiful message cannot be conceived. “

From Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (San Francisco:...

October 16, 2020

“Anthropic balances should not be dismissed”

"Can supplements really help fight COVID-19? Here’s what we know and don’t know:...

October 12, 2020

An atmospheric miracle

Below, I share with you three passages from Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power...

October 07, 2020

“Holy mystery, heaven’s daughter!”

I had already read several things from Michael Denton, an Anglo-Australian scientist who...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

“Robust” fine-tuning in chemistry and biochemistry?

A passage from Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things (Louisville:...

September 22, 2020

“But it’s still possible, right?”

Continuing with some passages from Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate Universe:...

September 17, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 4)

I share, here, something of a preemptive response from the Evangelical Protestant philosopher...

September 16, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 3)

Continued: According to William Dembski, while both contingency and complexity are required...

September 12, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 2)

Continued: According to William Dembski, design can be detected or inferred by...

September 11, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 1)

Philosophers such as Richard Swinburne [of the University of Oxford] have presented muscular...

September 02, 2020

Our galaxy is “highly skewed toward fitness for life”

Here are a couple of passages from Gerald L. Schroeder’s God According to God: A...

August 2020

August 23, 2020

A Universe Like a Bach Fugue

In his foreword to Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate...

August 08, 2020

Wonderment at the Structure of Cells and the Life-Friendly Universe in Which We Find Ourselves

Reacting dismissively (of course) to my recent post here under the title of...

August 06, 2020

Was a human-life-permitting universe monumentally unlikely?

Here is a lengthy passage that I marked in Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

Why have physicists become increasingly open to the “God question”?

I share here for your Sabbath reflections a passage that I marked during...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Four really challenging quotations

First, I share two quotations from two very vocal atheists. The first comes...

June 13, 2020

Some hear mere noise, while others hear a tune

Continuing with some notes from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest...

June 12, 2020

Making sense of “surprising” facts

Some passages from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God...

June 11, 2020

“One of humanity’s greatest achievements”

I know, I know. Scientists don't know anything. They've been wrong almost every...

June 10, 2020

“But it’s still possible, right?”

Here are few more or less unrelated quotations that I've drawn from Geraint...