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Hubble Zooms In On A Distant Island Universe
Some life perspective. In the below video released by NASA this month, the Hubble telescope does a gigapixel zoom-in on Andromeda, another island universe beyond our own. (It was Kant who first speculated that distant nubulae–tiny, blurry “clouds” visible in … Continue reading
Sailing?
Embodied and mortal consciousnesses together–7 billion of us!–subject to pain, held to the rocky surface of a sphere by gravity in a vast cosmic ocean, beacon lights (such as they are) random and far away. The Earth is our Titanic, … Continue reading
Perspective for a Sunday: Image of a Martian Sunset
__________ The sun as it begins to dip beneath the rim of Gusev Crater. Taken on Mars by NASA’s Spirit rover.
A False Choice: Believe in Evolution or a Divine Architect!
A pastor in Colorado recently posted the above image on his Facebook page and made the following comment: This snowflake was photographed in Russia. Is this not a most amazing picture? Let’s see, this is either the result of evolution … Continue reading
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Stephen Hawking’s “Did God Create the Universe?”
A thought-provoking reflection on the universe’s origin. __________ My fuller take on Hawking’s documentary is here.
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Creation Through Evolution?
Maybe the universe is an ongoing creation, and this is how the Creator is doing it, moving us, through a process of evolution, to some end product we can only half-imagine now. _____ Then again, maybe we live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, biology, cosmos, creation, Darwin, evolution, Genesis, God, speculation, yoga
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The Hair Cosmos: Ancient Greece Had a String Theory
The Greek word cosmos is related to the Greek word for comb. I stumbled on this curious little piece of etymology in a book on art appreciation from 1965 titled, The Book of Art: How to Look at Art (vol. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, art, cosmos, evolution, Genesis, gnosis, hair, life, physics, string theory
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Charles Hood’s photo essay on how places, when we travel, are “supposed” to look (as opposed to how they actually do look) put me in mind of the following Christina Rossetti poem meditating upon the inharmonies of existence. It appears to be addressed to … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, Christina Rossetti, cosmos, harmony, order, photography, poems, poetry, the problem of suffering
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Trippy Thought of the Day: The Music of the Spheres?
What if, instead of just seeing light from the stars, we heard sounds? And what if those sounds were the voices of other consciousnesses in pain? Would we still say the cosmos was beautiful, if we could hear the suffering … Continue reading
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Suicide is Painless? Albert Camus’s First Problem of Philosophy—and the Southern Novelist Walker Percy’s Answer to It
Is the game worth the candle—or not? And if life is worth living, why aren’t you doing it? I like this reflection on suicide in Walker Percy’s brilliant Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self Help Book (Pocket Books 1984, … Continue reading
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Our Universe Isn’t All There Is? A New Discovery Gives the Multiverse Hypothesis a Boost
In National Geographic this week: On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen “structures” are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says. Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 