I think Mary Daly over at Notice the Universe rightly says Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, is oddly titled for a work claiming (as she says) “…that the universe will create itself, out of nothing, in an infinite variety of forms; and that, given an infinite variety of forms, a segment or sub-universe friendly to mankind [...]
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Hawking’s idealism – it’s in the math
Posted in Cosmology, tagged beauty, beliefs, philosophy, science on September 16, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The new East Window
Posted in Cosmology, tagged beauty, beliefs, Church, faith, religion, science, theology on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is an ancient practice to lay out a church building so that altars and great-windows are oriented to the east. The original meaning of the word ‘orientation’ is derived I think from the architectural fact of this preference for an east-facing on the ‘business end’ of temples and churches. There’s an obvious attempt to make the [...]
What I wish I’d said about Stephen Hawking
Posted in Cosmology, tagged beliefs, religion, science, Stephen Hawking, theology on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been keenly aware of my lack of commentary on current events around here. Honestly, I feel hopelessly tongue-tied by the stunning idiocy which resides at the heart of so much that is in the public eye these days. With little surplus of time, I have been unable to raise the level of my response above ad hominem, so [...]
