Of Quiffs, Quarks, and God
April 17, 2018[…] the hazy multiplicity of the wave into a distinct singularity. In other words, our curiosity about the world causes the wave to collapse upon and give macroworld reality to just one of its infinitely […]
[…] the hazy multiplicity of the wave into a distinct singularity. In other words, our curiosity about the world causes the wave to collapse upon and give macroworld reality to just one of its infinitely […]
[…] I see them from the perspective of growing up Mormon in small-town Utah. In those years before World War II, the red rock mountains of the Pavant Range that ringed Sevier Valley circumscribed our […]
[…] same phenomena, but his different lens of understanding (literalistic Biblical) led him to experience a radically different world from Darwin’s. When Darwin began publishing his findings soon after his return to England, Fitzroy felt […]
[…] I cheerfully forego All else of happiness, to share With thee, in weal or woe. The world has smil’d upon me— I scorn its flattery; For naught but thy approving look, […]
[…] admit an adversarial position in regard to what they call “corporate” or “secular” as opposed to “sacral” world view. The division between secular and sacral, in the sense that Mircea Eliade expounded in his […]
[…] to us to look for answers and explanations in the Koran if something happens in the Arab world that we don’t understand, but no one thinks of that as persecution. It is simply an […]
[…] our sins. God who is sinless loved us while we were yet sinners. He loved the sinful world so much that he sent his own son into it to establish that each sinner is […]
[…] is element’” (9). I doubt that a fallen, mortal language can ensure our ability to interpret the world. We are mortal and fallible, as is our language, and any sense we make of the […]
[…] Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, and Ted Goebel, “The Colonization of Beringia and the Peopling of the New World,” Science 259 (1993): 46-53; Lisa Busch, “Alaska Sites Contend as Native Americans’ First Stop,” Science 264 […]
[…] society. Church leaders constantly teach us we must counteract the unhealthy messages taught by our society. The world is always ready to teach children violence as a problem-solving skill, self-absorption and materialism, substance abuse […]