2 days agoMember-onlyHere be Dragons — Confronting the Unknowns of Artificial Intelligencehic sunt dracones. Here be dragons. This is what medieval cartographers put on maps to indicate an unknown area. The assumption was that if we go to the unknown, dangers lurk. Serious dangers. Danger has never stopped humans from exploring and going beyond known territory. Was it starvation…Artificial Intelligence10 min readArtificial Intelligence10 min read
Mar 16Member-onlyA Theory of EvilThe ninth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, known as the Lord’s Prayer. We are examining this prayer through three different interpretations of Jesus. Was he a political revolutionary, a great moral teacher but not divine, or the Second Person of the Trinity, the Incarnate God? Here we ask…The Lords Prayer13 min readThe Lords Prayer13 min read
Mar 14Member-onlyIt’s what we don’t know that makes science so fun, Part 3The third and final post on what science and the deepening mysteries of understanding even the very basics of our universe and natural world. We previously considered a number of topics that demonstrate the more we learn, the less we know. What is real? This mishmash of current thinking and controversies in science…Science6 min readScience6 min read
Mar 12Member-onlyIt’s what we don’t know that makes science so fun, Part 2This is the second in a short series on science and what we know. Are nearing the end of science? Or just beginning? And, can science answer the questions we assume it can? The last post covered wormholes and faster than light communication. The Impossible Machine: Life Science publications and news sites write routinely…Science11 min readScience11 min read
Mar 10Member-onlyIt’s what we don’t know that makes science so fun, Part 1Do scientists have it all figured out? Ask most scientists that and I think you would get the answer: not even close. But, ask the average person that and I think they may have a quite different opinion. We’ve been told for so long — about a couple hundred years…Science6 min readScience6 min read
Mar 2Member-onlyWhy would God lead us into temptation?The eighth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer. We’ve been analyzing the prayer by assuming three different interpretations of Jesus: political revolutionary, great moral teacher and the Son of God. Here we study why Jesus advised his followers to pray that God, their…The Lords Prayer12 min readThe Lords Prayer12 min read
Feb 21Member-onlyA Response to Graham Pemberton on the Problem of EvilGraham Pemberton has again posed some deep and difficult questions about traditional Christian teaching, this time on the subject of evil. The question is: is God good, or evil, or both? …The Problem Of Evil12 min readThe Problem Of Evil12 min read
Feb 19Member-onlyAre these the most frightening words ever spoken?Post seven in the series on the Jesus Prayer, otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer. Here we consider the most challenging — even frightening — part of the prayer which links God’s actions toward us to our actions toward each other. …Christianity12 min readChristianity12 min read
Feb 14Member-onlyTime May Be the Most Confounding Subject in ScienceOur experience of time is so simple and settled that it doesn’t even register when suggestions are made that we don’t understand it. Of course we understand it. We are born, we live, we die. Only two things are certain: death and taxes. Time, Mark Twain sagely said, was something…Time10 min readTime10 min read
Feb 13Member-onlyDaily Bread and the Importance of MindfulnessThis is the sixth post on what we are calling the Jesus Prayer, otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer. Here we look at the teaching about asking for our daily bread. “Give us this day our daily bread.” As I write this post where Jesus taught his followers to ask God to meet their daily needs, the…Mindfulness11 min readMindfulness11 min read