Higgs and Bosons
I have been giving some thought to the implications of the likely “discovery” of the Higgs Boson particle that accounts for the Higgs field. I am sure you have read something about it by now, but if you haven’t, get caught up here.1 Professor Higgs, of the University of Edinburgh (score one more for the…
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I watched the 1997 movie Contact once again. I love this movie because most of the time it seems to be truly wrestling with questions of philosophy, science, and theology. It asks questions that don’t get answered (just like real life). It recognizes that there are fundamentalist zealot Christians and there are fundamental zealot scientists.…
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“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done.” – Isaac Newton* Isaac Newton is often referred to as an English mathematician & physicist who lived from 1642 – 1727. Yet few remember that…
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Check out my guest blog at Cosmos: reFaithing Science: http://cosmos.regent-college.edu/2012/04/25/space-by-keith-shields/
Continue readingFurther Up and Further In
I have been reading an interesting little book by Sigmund Brouwer called, Who Made the Moon? He wrote it as a way of exploring the conversation he wants to have with his two young daughters. He wants to explain to them his faith in a creator God while living in a world of science and atheism.…
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(Words and Music by Mike Charko and Keith Shields – SOCAN 2012) Listen to it here. People always tell me, This world is all there is. You’re a fool to think there’s more. But God above has told us, Heaven and earth fade away, His word remains the same. So straighten up and lift up…
Continue readingOn Earth as it is in Heaven
Matthew 6:9-13 (King James Version) Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us…
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I am continually amazed as I think about the nature of our world. We live in constant interaction with the molecules of the universe. We perceive things around us as solid objects: the keyboard on which I pound out these words, the desk on which my computer sits, and the dense mass of the mountains…
Continue readingFollow-up to “All Truth is God’s Truth”
John Henry Newman, who was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland, also spoke of the seamless nature of all truth. I lay it down that all knowledge forms one whole, because its subject-matter is one; for the universe in its length and breadth is so intimately knit together, that we cannot…
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The “Big Bang” hypothesis of cosmology has become part of our collective psyche and is the most popular explanation for how the universe came to be. If you asked a cross-section of people who it was that first came up with this theory you might get a variety of answers but few would be able…
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