


Nature’s laws and natural law
NATURE and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. Alexander Pope’s lines were intended as an epitaph for Isaac Newton.https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/sir-isaac-newton Foremost in his mind...
After Trinity Sunday comes…
I’m writing this on April 22 which, as everyone — or at least a lot of people — knows as Earth Day. It occurred to me that probably many members of the ELCA don’t know that their church has also designated the Second Sunday after Pentecost, the one following...
Science, pseudoscience, and tendentious science
Before there was hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, before there was climate change denial or Intelligent Design, there was Immanuel Velikovsky. I first encountered “pseudoscience” in the 1950s when my brother got Martin Gardner’s Fad’s and...
God working with our hands
Looking at the Evangelical Lutheran Church’s annual “God’s Work. Our Hands” day of service in light of the created co-creator proposal.