The airport was especially crowded. Parents were waiting to pick up their college kids for Thanksgiving break. Alyona waited for her youngest daughter Sophia. She checked the flight information screen. The flight was on time but the plane was sitting on the tarmac waiting for a gate. When the plane finally pulled up and…
What?! Christmas morning?! Ryan raced to the tree. Mom and dad had left the tree lights on. “Mom and dad!” Ryan yelled from the living room. He wasn’t going to start without them. Mom and dad appeared in the hallway. “We’re up. Go ahead, Ryan.” Well, it didn’t take long for Ryan to rip…
He is the image of God, the invisible one, The firstborn of creation. For in him all things were created, In the heavens and here on earth. Things we can see and things we cannot— Thrones and lordships and rulers and power— All things were created both through him and…
György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna Consider the scientific testimony about light: -The sunlight whereby you see everything this moment left the sun about 8.3 minutes ago. But there is more than meets the eye. That light is estimated to be between about 100,000 to 50 million years old by the time it reaches your…
“…Cynicism and sentimentality are two ways in which things of value are demoted to things with a price. “To understand this we need to make a distinction between fantasy and imagination. Both fantasy and imagination concern unrealities; but while the unrealities of fantasy penetrate and pollute the world, those of the imagination exist in…
Six blind men live in Metropolis, Illinois. They were born in the eighties and have been blind from birth. These six men consider the earth to be round. They came to this understanding during their grade school education which included handling of the classroom globe. Their day-to-day experience told them that the world…
“For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.” Saul Perlmutter, astrophysicist I…
The sun shall not smite thee by day… * “I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labor I may at last pull up.” — Michael Faraday, Letter…
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Is evolution compatible with Christianity – absolutely! Are science and Christianity compatible – absolutely! Is your understanding compatible with both truth-seeking science and Christian Cosmology? – TBD. John Polkinghorne Ard Louis research group & Dr. A.A. Louis Biologos
