Imagine the interest — the clicks — if someone wrote a headline that claimed “Science Finally Proves Beyond Doubt that God Exists.” If that clickbait headline was followed by indisputable proof then once everyone overcame their skepticism, it would be cosmos-shaking. Actually, on Medium there have been similar headlines but…

An Easter reflection. Today, April 17, Christians around the world celebrate an event which, if true, is the most important thing that has happened in the 13.8 billion year history of the universe. The only event that could possibly compare would be the day physical life began in the universe. …

In the face of such evil, can anyone answer where God is in this? The stories, videos and images coming out of Ukraine are horrifying the world. Ubiquitous cameras and instant information sharing from billions of sources bring the front line of warfare and evidence of inhumane brutality to our…

Most everyone believes in the afterlife, and most in heaven. Christian theologians today tend to talk about the “new creation,” or “the eschaton” when heaven and earth come together in a physical existence of those who belong to God. But, is such a future a rational hope? …

Where am I? I exist, or so I think, in a vast universe. One that stretches out from a beginning point to an unimaginable distance of 90 billion light years. But, it is growing all the time, and even accelerating its expansion. In that vast expanse there are at least 100 billion galaxies…

Ethan Siegel is one of the very best science writers I have read and his 131,000 followers on Medium suggests I am not alone in that opinion. But like many physicalist scientists, he sometimes crosses the line into philosophy and defends his physicalist belief system (dogma?) …

The fifth and last post on the topic of Jesus the Messiah. Our beliefs are based on stories. The stories of how our universe began, how life began and evolved, and where everything is headed vary widely. But, they matter greatly in how we think about ourselves, what purpose and…

The fourth in our series on Jesus the Messiah, we explore the concepts of the Cosmic Christ and the Omega Point –– efforts to connect a man from Nazareth to a universe described by science. In the first post in this brief series on Jesus the Messiah we observed the…

The third in a series of posts on Jesus the Messiah. In this we recount the historical meaning of the title association with him. Christ is not the last name of Jesus. Readers of my posts may have noticed that I generally refer to Jesus as “the Messiah” rather than…