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May 2026

May 17, 2026

Created or Discovered? (Part Two)

This is a continuation of a previous post. I proceed now with a few...

May 14, 2026

Created or Discovered? (Part One)

Two or three weeks ago, I posted an entry here under the title of "God’s...

April 2026

April 30, 2026

“God’s Equation”

A new article of mine appeared early this morning in Meridian Magazine. Whether it...

December 2022

December 19, 2022

“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are...

December 15, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (2)

Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and drawing upon Michael...

December 14, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (1)

The following went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

February 2022

February 20, 2022

Picture yourself in a boat on a river. Somebody calls you. You answer quite slowly.

*** Back in 2005, I was invited to write a little mini-essay...

November 2021

November 07, 2021

Some Thoughts on Science and Faith

*** I feel like sharing some quotations that I've previously gathered from...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

A Wrap-Up on Rapid City

*** [Yet again, owing to a recurring technical glitch on the part...

July 22, 2021

“God is a Mathematician”

*** Dr. Kyler Rasmussen continues with his still-new series of Bayesian blog...

April 2021

April 17, 2021

“The Man Who Knew Infinity” (Part Two)

*** First of all, I've just become aware that Edward Idris Cardinal...

April 14, 2021

“The Man Who Knew Infinity” (Part One)

*** I first read about Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) back when I was...

February 2021

February 13, 2021

The curious “assumption of intelligibility”

I eagerly await vaccination against COVID-19 -- not only for my own safety...

October 2020

October 08, 2020

“Governed in completely precise detail by mathematical principles”

On Tuesday, 6 October, Roger Penrose was awarded one half of the 2020...

September 2020

September 26, 2020

“God is a mathematician of a very high order”

Carlo Rovelli, in his Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum...

September 26, 2020

Revision 5.13 “What the West Owes the East” (Mathematics)

Arab and other Muslims had very practical reasons for their interest in mathematics....

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 19, 2020

“All we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity.”

Two quotations from Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, by Stephen M. Barr, a cosmologist...

May 2020

May 06, 2020

Why not Kafka every day?

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

Imagination as a Key Element in Science and Mathematics

A nice little interlude from Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems:...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

“Breathtaking Beauty”

"Astronomers have spotted a new type of storm on Saturn: The tempests are larger...

October 04, 2019

Is beauty truth? Is truth beauty?

A short article by Matthew Hutson in the October 2019 issue of Scientific...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

“Nature . . . prefers beauty”

A few more notes from my virtual "notebook": “At the fundamental level,”...

August 16, 2018

Mathematics, Water, and Global Warming

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements,...

March 2018

March 02, 2018

“A piper playing at the gates of dawn”

It seems to have been Pythagoras, in the sixth century BC, who first...

January 2018

January 20, 2018

Scientific discovery as an encounter with the divine

John Charlton Polkinghorne, KBE (Knight of the British Empire), FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society),...