This begins a series of posts on my observations about Buddhism, science, spirituality and biblical theism. This one focuses on the core Buddhist doctrine of emptiness.
One can only read so much into the number of Amazon reviews for a book. But Fritjof Capra’s The Dao of Physics with 508…
Creation is a work of art. As an artist and someone intensely interested in science, evolution, cosmology, quantum physics and more, the connection between what we know about the natural world and its relationship to art has fascinated me.
Imagine my surprise then to find out how DNA sequences are…
The previous post explained the difficulty today of understanding matter. This video digs a bit deeper, exploring current science including the Standard Model, the wave-particle duality, and the understanding of matter as fields of rippling energy that exist exclusively in interrelationships.
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For well over 100 years scientists have been describing matter — the stuff of the universe — in terms vastly different from what we used to think of matter. It is indeed surprising then that very little has changed in our thinking about and visualizing matter. …
The fourth and last post in the series on Quantum Foundations, Spirituality and Biblical Theism. In this series we try to answer which ideas in science and philosophy are most compatible with biblical theism. In the previous posts we identified major categories of current understandings of the meaning of quantum…
This third post in the series of biblical theism and science dives deeper into the thinking of prominent and current scientist/philosophers at the forefront of questions of science and religion. Previous posts provided an overview of the diversity of thoughts on quantum foundations and how they relate to theism. …
The Wall Street Journal on September 23 offered an opinion piece from a physicist that begins:
“Atheism’s central conceit is that it is a worldview grounded in logic and scientific evidence. That it has nothing to do with faith, which it associates with weakness. …
This is the second in the series of posts on science and biblical theism. In the first we introduced the cross pressures or cognitive dissonance both experienced in our culture and in our personal lives of believing both the claims of physicalists relating to science and also believing in a…
This is the first in a short series of posts examining the question of conflict or concordance between what we know about the world from science and biblical theism. While much interest in the possible convergence of science and religion points to eastern religions and philosophies, particularly Buddhism, these posts…
The 6th video in the Top Down series. This is part two of examining Tim Andersen’s excellent post on Medium exploring Western and Eastern view of consciousness. …
