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A Short Lament About Our Species

I have to head out of town tomorrow to help out a family member, and my job has been as busy as our hospital rolled out a new electronic medical record. I wanted to post a few thoughts. Without going into detail, I was at work last week when a famous person involved in politicsContinue reading “A Short Lament About Our Species”

American Religious People Must Oppose the Nomination of RFK, Jr.

I hate being political on my blog. However, this post is not really as political as much as it is religious. This post is about the importance of medical science. Specifically, my post is about the importance of vaccines and how we need to get the correct message out about how safe they are. ByContinue reading “American Religious People Must Oppose the Nomination of RFK, Jr.”

Theology Ends Up Matching the Science

I have been working my way through Michael Abril’s Evolutionary Theology which is a great book. I’m “working my way through” only in the sense that I often have a limited free reading time outside of work. In his book, he talks a bit about Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) who was a veryContinue reading “Theology Ends Up Matching the Science”

Science, Truth, and Religion

I listened to a fascinating podcast this weekend in which Professor Harry Collins from Cardiff University was interviewed about truth in science. I highly recommend the listen. Simply put, science primary goal is to look for the causes of things (observation). The causes may be broad (epidemiology); the causes may be minute (biochemistry of ATP);Continue reading “Science, Truth, and Religion”

The Light Cone and Process Philosophy / Process Theology

In my opinion, the light cone is one of the best ways to understand aspects of one of the 3 tenets of process philosophy and process theology — prehension. The other two aspects are panentheism and panexperientialism. Simply put, prehension is the moment right before an event occurs. Process philosophy (and thus, process theology) isContinue reading “The Light Cone and Process Philosophy / Process Theology”