Religion & Science posts

Stephen Hawking's Universe (Big Bang) (Sep. 15, 2007)

Oh, I totally loved this video!! I watched this in my astronomy
class at OCC and was so fascinated by the science behind all of it.
I have enormous respect for Hawking and scientists like him. Their
intellect is astounding and I enjoy learning stories behind how
certain scientific theories (explanations of natural phenomena that
are invented, not discovered) came to be (the people invovled, their
thought process, the time and energy and creativity it takes).
True, it saddens me a little that one of the most brilliant minds
probably doesn't have much stirring in his heart and soul, but his
contributions toward science are commendable and sooo important.

For those interested in a brief history of the different hypotheses
of the universe (expanding, oscillating, steady state, etc) and how
God is tied in from a Christian perspecitive, there's a book called
The Fingerprint of God by Hugh Ross. Warning: it's full of physics
so if you enjoy that, you'll find it really interesting. I had the
pleasure of hearing Hugh Ross speak and I find him credible as a
Christian and physicist/astronomer (BS, Masters, and PHD). It gets
on my nerves when people who aren't even credible in the field try
to write books and get attention. That's why I decided to take this
class instead of Dead Sea Scrolls because they had me reading
propaganda from authors who weren't even legit historians. But I
totally digress... :)

Randall/Wilson/5 min philosophy (Sep. 25, 2007)

Ugh, I tried to post this a long time ago, but it didn't save.
Anyway, let's see if I remember anything... So yeah, I agree with a
lot of you that the Randall part of the video, though a pretty
interesting concept, was a little too drawn out and full of Physics
for my taste. She's a super smart lady, but saying "Hey, there's
evidence for the existence of other dimensions" or whatever you want
to call it would have been sufficient. The Wilson part wasn't
especially exciting to me... But the philosophy in 5 minutes video
was interesting! So it's some sort of reincarnation they're talking
about, huh? Except you're stuck being yourself, which hopefully
you're cool with. It was kind of encouraging: if you have to relive
this life, you'd want to make it count, right? You'd want every day
to be full of meaning. The freaky thing though is that after talking
to a demon that you obviously recognized to be a demon, you would call
it a god. I'm sorry, but if I was wise enough to know it to be
something that is evil and full of lies, i would not be calling it a
god and I would probably not believe it anyway because hello: lies.
but yeah, that's my story.