The Big Questions series When my vitality was vanishing and I was facing heart bypass surgery, I had no qualms about doing it. No fear, just peace. Of course this level of surgery is at the top of the line in terms of magnitude. And facing having your heart stopped and your chest pried apart like a clam is not something I or anyone else looks forward to with delight. But I had peace about it. I made a few... Read more
Series: The Big Questions Generation Z is just as “spiritual” as other generations and open to religion. But when churches have embraced LGBTQIA+ and other divisive issues, churches have continued in decline. Critics might say that they went the wrong direction, pandering, worldly, even against the Bible. Others are left scratching their head, believing they did the right thing but why didn’t it work. Research by major institutions give major insight into the attitudes of these groups and why they... Read more
Series: The Big Questions I’ve worked in three fields relevant to AI and I utilize AI on a daily basis. Google Search is a type of AI. I also use ChatGPT minimally – I don’t trust it yet. I do use it to create images such as the one below. I use AI in Microsoft Word to find my errors, and I employ WordTune to refine some sentences. The reason is because my brain tends to deliver brain dumps without... Read more
The Big Questions series Worldwide, people hate change. They resist it tooth and nail. But in the end they adapt. Or they don’t and it’s very disruptive to them and the world around them. How do we adapt to change when the world around us is constantly changing? It’s really difficult and many of the problems we’re seeing today come from resistance to change. It causes extremist views. It causes people to declare facts invalid in their lives. Change creates... Read more
The Big Questions series Many religious people want to know what evolution is and does it conflict with Christianity or other religions. I don’t see a conflict there. We don’t know in any way how God created the universe and our world. We only know that God is the most likely cause that set it in motion. Science doesn’t have an explanation for “First Cause,” which caused it from the very beginning. Image Origin of life stages by Chiswick Chap... Read more
The Big Questions series Is the scientific theory about how the universe came in to existence at odds with the Bible. Short answer: Not in any way. Two different fields of knowledge that don’t intersect Science and spirituality-religion are entirely different fields with entirely different methodologies. Science explores the physical universe. It doesn’t explore the spiritual universe. The spiritual universe and religion don’t explore the physical universe. Scientific methodology – empirical Scientific methodology aims toward a theory to define an... Read more
Series: The Big Questions Who is God? This is a fun question. What is God’s nature, wiley, unpredictable, on one side or another, a hater, forsaking everyone but a chosen few, a judge with a big hammer? If we understand the nature of God then we understand that God is none of these things. An ontology can be defined as a set of the basic nature of things, and we can describe God’s basic nature as a list of characteristics,... Read more
Space Race Needed For Today – For This Space We need a new “space program” that the world can get excited about and participate in. The benefits financially would be huge for all involved. “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along... Read more
As a reaction to a recent article on Patheos on Five Challenges Postmodernism Presents for the Church, it helps to understand what Postmodernism is, not put words in its mouth. People like to condemn what they don’t understand because they see it as a threat. And some just need to create threats to keep a following. Does Christianity represent ultimate truth? The over 2000 Christian denominations worldwide makes us say, “huh?” They don’t agree so which one is correct? Is... Read more
Series: The Big Questions Who is God? This is a fun question. I research and write about “the nature (ontology) of God, and explored it through the literature of many religions. Proof Proof of God is an unproven hypothesis. Like love, you can’t put God under a microscope and declare that God is or isn’t, or just reach out and touch God. For that reason the hard sciences, which look for enigmatic things like particles, energy fields, radiation, and black... Read more
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