Quantum Vacuum Energy
Contemporary physics posits an all-pervasive energetic field called “quantum vacuum energy,” or zero-point energy, a random, ambient fluctuating energy that exists even in so-called empty space.
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Christian Suburban Housewife Scientist
Several recent thought-provoking papers from the Future Visions group have inspired me to offer some thoughts from a "female perspective". As an observational astronomer and a Christian, I found myself in consonance with many views expressed in Bernard Haisch’s contribution "Freeing the Scientific Imagination from Fundamentalist Scientism" (although I disagree that strident debunking is exclusively…
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Science and the Quest for Cosmic Purpose
Traditionally most religions led us to believe that the universe is inherently meaningful, thus giving humans a sense of belonging to something of great importance. However, modern science seems to have made the classical hierarchical vision untenable.
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Review of “Religion and Scientific Naturalism”
The process metaphysics David Ray Griffin endorses supposes that the avenues for overcoming conflicts between science and religion are the adoption of a minimal naturalism by science and the adoption of a naturalistic theism by religion.
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Education for Collaboration
We must learn how to become cooperative problem solvers to avoid the ecological and social self-destruction toward which we human beings are rushing headlong in a confounding variety of ways.
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Human Creativity Revisited
Responding to Michael Ruse’s thoughtful response to my essays on “Human Creativity: Accelerating Complexity and Evolutionary Discontinuity” and his more colorful criticism at the recent Haverford Conference on “Genetics, Bioethics, and Religion.”
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Progress in Religion
Acceptance speech upon receipt of the 2000 Templeton Prize.
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Review of Paul Brockelman’s “Cosmology and Creation”
He constructs a cosmology nucleated on big-bang cosmology.
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Konrad Lorenz, National Socialism, and Epistemology
You can separate out the context of discovery from the context of justification, but anyone who studies real science will see that it is deeply cultural impregnated.
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Review of Jeffery Sobosan’s “Romancing the Universe”
Review of Jeffery G. Sobosan, Romancing the Universe: Theology, Science, and Cosmology (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999). Sobosan is a theologian and I a physicist, so I began with trepidation concerning the depth and accuracy of his scientific writing. Thankfully, my prejudice was baseless—Sobosan references current mainstream theories of quantum physics,…