I was struck by something that my friend Ernest pointed out tonight - he said that Paul had it all planned out in his head.  That Romans wasn't written in little chunks, but was a letter that he felt he needed (was inspired by the Holy Spirit) to write to the dudes in Rome and so he sat down and wrote it.  Have you ever done that?  Have you ( Read more... )

On Monday my seminar of two presented our papers. My paper is something appropriately Eventhere-like. That is, it involved reading up on a Florentine family who 'made it big' in Rome because one of them became Pope, Galileo and his trials, and Church history (think Counter-Reformation, 30 years war, and the Spanish Inquisition*1). Oh yes, and an ( Read more... )

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

Journey to the Center of the Earth
~ Jules Verne

Science is an effort to understand the creation. Biblical religion involves our relation to the Creator. Since we can learn about the Creator from his creation, religion can learn from science.

~ Paul H. Carr