George L. Murphy, Author at Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology

On finding lost books – Or, scientists and sin

by George L. Murphy | Jul 8, 2022 | Commentary

Lost and found When we returned last year to our winter retreat in Arizona after absence due to COVID-19 and other matters, I got into books I’d put in storage there. One I’d forgotten was a collection of Robert Oppenheimer’s post-war essays titled The Open...

Nature’s laws and natural law

by George L. Murphy | Oct 13, 2021 | Commentary

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…

by George L. Murphy | May 12, 2021 | Features

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

by George L. Murphy | Apr 15, 2021 | Features

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...