I was struck by a passage about dark energy and dark matter — as opposed to the ordinary “baryonic” matter that we see, sense, and measure — in Jeff Wynn and Louise Wynn, Everyone is a Believer: The Growing Convergence of Science and Religion (2019), 29: What we can directly sense and measure is just 4% of what we know by indirect means to be out there, and the biosphere is an immensely tiny faction of that. A... Read more
New Testament Notes 73-74
Matthew 7:15-20 Compare Luke 6:43-45 These verses contain one of the most manifestly useful rules in scripture. Sound religious teaching should have positive implications in day-to-day life. Obviously, of course, any particular religious individual may be inferior, in terms of behavior, etc., to some particular irreligious or theologically-different individual. And especially so at any particular time. I’m talking in the aggregate, of overall tendencies. Of communities over time. And, of course, any specific... Read more